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31
0f74202c 32COMMENT_START
cccac0a2 33 WELCOME TO SQUID @VERSION@
34 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 35
cccac0a2 36 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
37 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
38 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 39
cccac0a2 40 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
41 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
42 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
43 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
44 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
45 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
46 case.
debd9a31 47
cccac0a2 48COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 49
592a09dc 50COMMENT_START
51 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
52 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
53 supported.
54
55 For example,
56
57 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
58
59 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
60 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
61 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
62 configuration files.
63COMMENT_END
64
5473c134 65COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 66 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 67 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
68COMMENT_END
69
41bd17a4 70NAME: auth_param
71TYPE: authparam
72LOC: Config.authConfiguration
cccac0a2 73DEFAULT: none
74DOC_START
41bd17a4 75 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
76 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 77
41bd17a4 78 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 79
41bd17a4 80 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
81 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
82 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
83 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
84 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
85 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
86 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
87 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
88 program entry).
cccac0a2 89
41bd17a4 90 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
91 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
92 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
93 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 94
41bd17a4 95 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
96 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
97 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
98 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
99 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
100 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
101 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
102 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
103 type acl.
cccac0a2 104
41bd17a4 105 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
106 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
107 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
108 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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109 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have authentication
110 disabled.
cccac0a2 111
41bd17a4 112 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 113
41bd17a4 114 "program" cmdline
115 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
116 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
117 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
118 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
119 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 120
41bd17a4 121 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
122 program is specified.
cccac0a2 123
41bd17a4 124 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
125 this line to something like
307b83b7 126
41bd17a4 127 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 128
41bd17a4 129 "children" numberofchildren
130 The number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
131 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
132 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
133 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
134 authenticator processes.
135 auth_param basic children 5
9e7dbc51 136
41bd17a4 137 "concurrency" concurrency
138 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
139 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
140 one request at a time. Setting this changes the protocol used to
141 include a channel number first on the request/response line, allowing
142 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallell without
143 wating for the response.
144 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
145 auth_param basic concurrency 0
0fdafae7 146
41bd17a4 147 "realm" realmstring
148 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
149 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
150 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
151 password). There is no default.
152 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 153
41bd17a4 154 "credentialsttl" timetolive
155 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
156 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
157 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
158 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
159 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
160 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
161 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
162 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
163 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 164
41bd17a4 165 "casesensitive" on|off
166 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
167 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
168 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
169 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
170 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 171
41bd17a4 172 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 173
41bd17a4 174 "program" cmdline
175 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
176 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
177 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
178 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
179 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
180 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
181 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 182
41bd17a4 183 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
184 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 185
41bd17a4 186 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
187 something like
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41bd17a4 189 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 190
41bd17a4 191 "children" numberofchildren
192 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
193 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
194 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
195 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
196 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
197 auth_param digest children 5
cccac0a2 198
41bd17a4 199 "realm" realmstring
200 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
201 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
202 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
203 password). There is no default.
204 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 205
41bd17a4 206 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
207 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
208 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 209
41bd17a4 210 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
211 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
212 valid for.
cccac0a2 213
41bd17a4 214 "nonce_max_count" number
215 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
216 used.
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 "nonce_strictness" on|off
219 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
220 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
221 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
222 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 223
41bd17a4 224 "check_nonce_count" on|off
225 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
226 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
227 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
228 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 229
41bd17a4 230 "post_workaround" on|off
231 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
232 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
233 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 234
41bd17a4 235 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 236
41bd17a4 237 "program" cmdline
238 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
239 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
240 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
241 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
242 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
243 is not used.
cccac0a2 244
41bd17a4 245 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 246
41bd17a4 247 "children" numberofchildren
248 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
249 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
250 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
251 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
252 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
253 processes.
cccac0a2 254
41bd17a4 255 auth_param ntlm children 5
cccac0a2 256
41bd17a4 257 "keep_alive" on|off
258 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
259 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
260 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
261 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
262 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 263
41bd17a4 264 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 265
41bd17a4 266 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 267
41bd17a4 268 "program" cmdline
269 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
270 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
271 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
272 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
273 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
274 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least one acl
275 of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate authenticator_program
276 is not used.
277 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
278 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 279
41bd17a4 280 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 281
41bd17a4 282 "children" numberofchildren
283 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
284 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
285 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
286 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
287 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
288 processes.
289 auth_param negotiate children 5
d3803853 290
41bd17a4 291 "keep_alive" on|off
292 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
293 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
294 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
295 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
296 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 297
41bd17a4 298 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 299
41bd17a4 300NOCOMMENT_START
301#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
302#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
303#auth_param negotiate children 5
304#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
305#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
306#auth_param ntlm children 5
307#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
308#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
309#auth_param digest children 5
310#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
311#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
312#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
313#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
314#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
315#auth_param basic children 5
316#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
317#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
318NOCOMMENT_END
319DOC_END
cccac0a2 320
41bd17a4 321NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
322TYPE: time_t
323DEFAULT: 1 hour
324LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
325DOC_START
326 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
327 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
328 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
329 have good reason to.
330DOC_END
cccac0a2 331
41bd17a4 332NAME: authenticate_ttl
333TYPE: time_t
334DEFAULT: 1 hour
335LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
336DOC_START
337 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
338 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
339 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
340 TTL are removed from memory.
341DOC_END
cccac0a2 342
41bd17a4 343NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
344TYPE: time_t
345LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
346DEFAULT: 0 seconds
347DOC_START
348 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
349 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
350 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
351 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
352 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
353 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
354 environment with relatively static address assignments.
355DOC_END
cccac0a2 356
3d1e3e43 357COMMENT_START
358 ACCESS CONTROLS
359 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
360COMMENT_END
361
41bd17a4 362NAME: external_acl_type
363TYPE: externalAclHelper
364LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 365DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 366DOC_START
41bd17a4 367 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
368 to look up the status
cccac0a2 369
41bd17a4 370 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 Options:
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
375 for 1 hour)
376 negative_ttl=n
377 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
378 as ttl)
379 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
380 external acl lookups of this type. (default 5)
381 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
382 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
383 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
384 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
385 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
386 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
387 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 388 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
389 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
390 'ipv4' is the default unless --with-localhost-ipv6 is used.
391 --with-localhost-ipv6 changes the default to 'ipv6'.
392 SPECIAL NOTE: these options override --with-localhost-ipv6
cccac0a2 393
41bd17a4 394 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 395
41bd17a4 396 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
397 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
398 %IDENT Ident user name
399 %SRC Client IP
400 %SRCPORT Client source port
401 %URI Requested URI
402 %DST Requested host
403 %PROTO Requested protocol
404 %PORT Requested port
405 %PATH Requested URL path
406 %METHOD Request method
407 %MYADDR Squid interface address
408 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
409 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
410 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
411 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
412 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
413 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
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415 %>{Header} HTTP request header
416 %>{Hdr:member}
417 HTTP request header list member
418 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 419 HTTP request header list member using ; as
420 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
421 character.
cccac0a2 422
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423 %<{Header} HTTP reply header
424 %<{Hdr:member}
425 HTTP reply header list member
426 %<{Hdr:;member}
427 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
428 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
429 character.
430
41bd17a4 431 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
432 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
433 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 434
41bd17a4 435 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
436 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
437 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
438 more details.
cccac0a2 439
41bd17a4 440 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 441
41bd17a4 442 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 443
41bd17a4 444 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 445
41bd17a4 446 user= The users name (login)
447 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
448 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
449 in error pages
450 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
451 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
452 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
453 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 454
41bd17a4 455 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
456 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 457
41bd17a4 458 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
459 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
460 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 461
41bd17a4 462 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
463 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
464 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 465DOC_END
466
41bd17a4 467NAME: acl
468TYPE: acl
469LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 470DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 471DOC_START
41bd17a4 472 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 473
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474 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
475 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
476 they are read from.
cccac0a2 477
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478 acl aclname acltype argument ...
479 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 480
375eeb3b 481 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 482
41bd17a4 483 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
484 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
cccac0a2 485
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486
487 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
488
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489 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address
490 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses
491 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address
492 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address
cccac0a2 493
41bd17a4 494 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
495 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
496 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
497 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other *BSD variants.
498 #
499 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
500 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid cannot
501 # find out its MAC address.
934b03fc 502
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503 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, from client IP
504 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
505 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ... # regex matching client name
506 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ... # regex matching server
41bd17a4 507 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
508 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
509 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 510
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511 acl aclname src_as number ...
512 acl aclname dst_as number ...
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513 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
514 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
515 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
516 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
517 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
518 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
519 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 520
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521 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
522 # day-abbrevs:
523 # S - Sunday
524 # M - Monday
525 # T - Tuesday
526 # W - Wednesday
527 # H - Thursday
528 # F - Friday
529 # A - Saturday
530 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
531
532 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
41bd17a4 533 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
e988aa40 534
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535 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
536 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
537 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
197f6b3c 538 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name
e988aa40 539
375eeb3b 540 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
e988aa40 541
375eeb3b 542 acl aclname method GET POST ...
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543
544 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ... # status code in reply
545
375eeb3b 546 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
41bd17a4 547 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below)
e988aa40 548
375eeb3b 549 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
41bd17a4 550 # pattern match on Referer header
551 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 552
375eeb3b 553 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 554 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
555 # string match on ident output.
556 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 557
41bd17a4 558 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
559 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
560 # list of valid usernames
561 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
562 #
563 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
564 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
565 # in access.log.
566 #
567 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
568 # to check username/password combinations (see
569 # auth_param directive).
570 #
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571 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent/intercepting proxy
572 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 573 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 574
41bd17a4 575 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
576 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
577 # Example:
578 #
579 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 580
41bd17a4 581 acl aclname maxconn number
582 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
583 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
1e5562e3 584
41bd17a4 585 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
586 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
587 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
588 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
589 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
590 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
591 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
592 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
593 # request is denied)
594 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
595 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
596 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 597
375eeb3b 598 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 599 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
600 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
601 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
602 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
603 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 604
41bd17a4 605 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
606 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
607 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
608 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 609
375eeb3b 610 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 611 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
612 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
613 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
614 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
615 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
616 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 617
41bd17a4 618 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
619 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
620 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
621 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 622
375eeb3b 623 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 624 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
625 # external_acl_type directive.
cccac0a2 626
41bd17a4 627 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
628 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
629 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 630
41bd17a4 631 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
632 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
633 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 634
41bd17a4 635 acl aclname ext_user username ...
636 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
637 # string match on username returned by external acl helper
638 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
cccac0a2 639
41bd17a4 640Examples:
641acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
642acl myexample dst_as 1241
643acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
644acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
645acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 646
41bd17a4 647NOCOMMENT_START
648#Recommended minimum configuration:
41bd17a4 649acl manager proto cache_object
ee776778 650acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
41bd17a4 651acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
ee776778 652#
653# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
654# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
655# should be allowed
656acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
657acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
658acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
659#
41bd17a4 660acl SSL_ports port 443
661acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
662acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
663acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
664acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
665acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
666acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
667acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
668acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
669acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
670acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
671acl CONNECT method CONNECT
672NOCOMMENT_END
673DOC_END
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675NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
676TYPE: acl_access
677IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
678LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
679DEFAULT: none
680DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
681DOC_START
682 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
683 find the original source of a request.
684
685 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
686 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
687 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
688 rightmost address being the most recent.
689
690 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
691 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
692 to see where that host received the request from. If the
693 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, and if
694 acl_uses_indirect_client is on, then we continue backtracking
695 until we reach an address for which we are not allowed to
696 follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
697 address in the list. (If acl_uses_indirect_client is off, then
698 it's impossible to backtrack through more than one level of
699 X-Forwarded-For addresses.)
700
701 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
702 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
703 be treated as the client address for access control, delay
704 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
705 delay_pool_uses_indirect_client and log_uses_indirect_client
706 options.
707
708 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
709
710 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
711 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
712 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
713 source address of the request. This may enable remote
714 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
715 based on the client's source addresses.
716
717 For example:
718
719 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
720 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
721 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
722 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
723DOC_END
724
725NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
726COMMENT: on|off
727TYPE: onoff
728IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
729DEFAULT: on
730LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
731DOC_START
732 Controls whether the indirect client address
733 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
734 direct client address in acl matching.
735DOC_END
736
737NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
738COMMENT: on|off
739TYPE: onoff
740IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR && DELAY_POOLS
741DEFAULT: on
742LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
743DOC_START
744 Controls whether the indirect client address
745 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
746 direct client address in delay pools.
747DOC_END
748
749NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
750COMMENT: on|off
751TYPE: onoff
752IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
753DEFAULT: on
754LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
755DOC_START
756 Controls whether the indirect client address
757 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
758 direct client address in the access log.
759DOC_END
760
41bd17a4 761NAME: http_access
762TYPE: acl_access
763LOC: Config.accessList.http
764DEFAULT: none
765DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
766DOC_START
767 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 768
41bd17a4 769 Access to the HTTP port:
770 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 771
41bd17a4 772 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 773
41bd17a4 774 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
775 the request.
cccac0a2 776
41bd17a4 777 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
778 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
779 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
780 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
781 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
782 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 783
41bd17a4 784NOCOMMENT_START
785#Recommended minimum configuration:
786#
787# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
788http_access allow manager localhost
789http_access deny manager
790# Deny requests to unknown ports
791http_access deny !Safe_ports
792# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
793http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
794#
795# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
796# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
797# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
798#http_access deny to_localhost
799#
800# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
c8f4eac4 801
ee776778 802# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
803# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
804# from where browsing should be allowed
805http_access allow localnet
7d90757b 806
41bd17a4 807# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
808http_access deny all
809NOCOMMENT_END
810DOC_END
7d90757b 811
41bd17a4 812NAME: http_reply_access
813TYPE: acl_access
814LOC: Config.accessList.reply
815DEFAULT: none
816DOC_START
817 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 818
41bd17a4 819 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 820
41bd17a4 821 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
822 all replies
1a224843 823
41bd17a4 824 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
825 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
826 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
cccac0a2 827DOC_END
828
41bd17a4 829NAME: icp_access
830TYPE: acl_access
831LOC: Config.accessList.icp
832DEFAULT: none
833DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 834DOC_START
41bd17a4 835 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
836 access lists
5473c134 837
41bd17a4 838 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 839
41bd17a4 840 See http_access for details
841
842NOCOMMENT_START
ee776778 843#Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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844#icp_access allow localnet
845#icp_access deny all
41bd17a4 846NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 847DOC_END
848
41bd17a4 849NAME: htcp_access
850IFDEF: USE_HTCP
851TYPE: acl_access
852LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
853DEFAULT: none
854DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 855DOC_START
41bd17a4 856 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
857 access lists
5473c134 858
41bd17a4 859 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 860
41bd17a4 861 See http_access for details
5473c134 862
0b48417e 863 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
864 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
865 using the htcp or htcp-oldsquid options.
866
ee776778 867NOCOMMENT_START
868#Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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869#htcp_access allow localnet
870#htcp_access deny all
ee776778 871NOCOMMENT_END
41bd17a4 872DOC_END
5473c134 873
41bd17a4 874NAME: htcp_clr_access
875IFDEF: USE_HTCP
876TYPE: acl_access
877LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
878DEFAULT: none
879DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
880DOC_START
881 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
882 on defined access lists
5473c134 883
41bd17a4 884 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 885
41bd17a4 886 See http_access for details
5473c134 887
41bd17a4 888#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
889acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
890htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 891DOC_END
892
41bd17a4 893NAME: miss_access
894TYPE: acl_access
895LOC: Config.accessList.miss
df2eec10 896DEFAULT: allow all
5473c134 897DOC_START
41bd17a4 898 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
899 a parent. For example:
5473c134 900
41bd17a4 901 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
902 miss_access allow localclients
903 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 904
41bd17a4 905 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
906 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 907
41bd17a4 908 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
909 to fetch MISSES from us.
41bd17a4 910DOC_END
911
912NAME: ident_lookup_access
913TYPE: acl_access
914IFDEF: USE_IDENT
915DEFAULT: none
916DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
917LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
5473c134 918DOC_START
41bd17a4 919 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
920 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
921 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
922 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
923 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
924 any requests.
5473c134 925
41bd17a4 926 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
927 can follow this example:
5473c134 928
41bd17a4 929 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
930 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
931 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 932
41bd17a4 933 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
934 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
935 the correct result.
936DOC_END
5473c134 937
5b0f5383 938NAME: reply_body_max_size
939COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
940TYPE: acl_b_size_t
941DEFAULT: none
942LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
943DOC_START
944 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
945 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
946 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
947 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
948 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
949 for this reply.
950
951 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
952 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
953 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
954 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
955 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
956 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
957 and they will receive a partial reply.
958
959 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
960 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
961 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
962 use this option if you have downstream caches.
963
964 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
965 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
966 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
967 the size of your largest error page.
968
969 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
970 no limit imposed.
971DOC_END
972
973COMMENT_START
974 NETWORK OPTIONS
975 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
976COMMENT_END
977
978NAME: http_port ascii_port
979TYPE: http_port_list
980DEFAULT: none
981LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
982DOC_START
983 Usage: port [options]
984 hostname:port [options]
985 1.2.3.4:port [options]
986
987 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
988 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
989 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
990 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
991 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
992 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
993 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
994 address, so you can use the port number alone.
995
996 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
997 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
998
999 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1000 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1001 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1002
1003 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1004
1005 Options:
1006
e77bdb4e 1007 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1008 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1009 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1010
1011 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1012 connections using the client IP address.
13b5cd0c 1013 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1014
1015 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1016 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1017
1018 defaultsite=domainname
1019 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1020 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1021 accelerators should consider the default.
1022 Implies accel.
1023
1024 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1025 domain support. Implies accel.
1026
1027 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1028 Implies accel.
1029
1030 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1031 than the http_port number. Implies accel.
1032
1033 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1034 Defaults to http.
1035
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1036 connection-auth[=on|off]
1037 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1038 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
1039 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1040
5b0f5383 1041 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1042 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1043 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1044 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1045 support is enabled.
1046 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1047
1048 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1049 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1050 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1051 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1052 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1053 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1054 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1055 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1056
4c9da963 1057 sslBump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
1058 establish secure connection with the client and with
1059 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1060 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1061 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1062
1063 When this option is enabled, additional options become
1064 available to specify SSL-related properties of the
1065 client-side connection: cert, key, version, cipher,
1066 options, clientca, cafile, capath, crlfile, dhparams,
1067 sslflags, and sslcontext. See the https_port directive
1068 for more information on these options.
1069
1070 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1071 the SslBump feature.
1072
81b6e9a7 1073 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1074 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1075
b2130d58 1076 keepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
1077 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections
1078 idle is the initial time before TCP starts probing
1079 the connection, interval how often to probe, and
1080 timeout the time before giving up.
1081
5b0f5383 1082 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1083 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1084 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1085 visible on the internal address.
1086
1087NOCOMMENT_START
1088# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1089http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1090NOCOMMENT_END
1091DOC_END
1092
1093NAME: https_port
1094IFDEF: USE_SSL
1095TYPE: https_port_list
1096DEFAULT: none
1097LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1098DOC_START
1099 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1100
1101 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1102 requests.
1103
1104 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1105 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1106 accelerator level.
1107
1108 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1109 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1110
1111 Options:
1112
1113 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1114 defaultsite or vhost.
1115
1116 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1117 this port. Implies accel.
1118
1119 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1120 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1121 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1122 Implies accel.
1123
1124 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1125 Defaults to https.
1126
1127 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1128
1129 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1130 if not specified, the certificate file is
1131 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1132 key file.
1133
1134 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1135 1 automatic (default)
1136 2 SSLv2 only
1137 3 SSLv3 only
1138 4 TLSv1 only
1139
1140 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1141
1142 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1143 being:
1144 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1145 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1146 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1147 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1148 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1149 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1150 documentation for a complete list of options.
1151
1152 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1153 requesting a client certificate.
1154
1155 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1156 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1157 clientca will be used.
1158
1159 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1160 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1161
1162 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1163 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1164 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1165
1166 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1167 DH key exchanges.
1168
1169 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1170 DELAYED_AUTH
1171 Don't request client certificates
1172 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1173 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1174 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1175 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1176 to OpenSSL.
1177 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1178 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1179 will result in a new SSL session.
1180 VERIFY_CRL
1181 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1182 certificates.
1183 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1184 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1185 client certificate chain.
1186
1187 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1188
1189 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1190
1191 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1192 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1193
81b6e9a7 1194 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1195 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1196
5b0f5383 1197DOC_END
1198
41bd17a4 1199NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1200TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1201DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1202LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
5473c134 1203DOC_START
41bd17a4 1204 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1205 connections with, based on the username or source address
1206 making the request.
5473c134 1207
41bd17a4 1208 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1209
41bd17a4 1210 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1211 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1212
41bd17a4 1213 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1214 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2c73de90 1215 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1216 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1217
41bd17a4 1218 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1219 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474 and
1220 RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1221
41bd17a4 1222 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1223 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1224 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1225 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
cccac0a2 1226
41bd17a4 1227 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1228 matching line.
cccac0a2 1229
41bd17a4 1230 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1231 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1232 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1233 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1234DOC_END
1235
41bd17a4 1236NAME: clientside_tos
1237TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1238DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1239LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
cccac0a2 1240DOC_START
41bd17a4 1241 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1242 connections with, based on the username or source address
1243 making the request.
1244DOC_END
cccac0a2 1245
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1246NAME: zph_tos_local
1247TYPE: int
1248IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1249DEFAULT: 0
1250LOC: Config.zph_tos_local
1251DOC_START
1252 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark local hits. Read above
1253 (tcp_outgoing_tos) for details/requirements about TOS.
1254 Default: 0 (disabled).
1255DOC_END
1256
1257NAME: zph_tos_peer
1258TYPE: int
1259IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1260DEFAULT: 0
1261LOC: Config.zph_tos_peer
1262DOC_START
1263 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark peer hits. Read above
1264 (tcp_outgoing_tos) for details/requirements about TOS.
1265 Default: 0 (disabled).
1266DOC_END
1267
1268NAME: zph_tos_parent
1269COMMENT: on|off
1270TYPE: onoff
1271IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1272DEFAULT: on
1273LOC: Config.onoff.zph_tos_parent
1274DOC_START
1275 Set this to off if you want only sibling hits to be marked.
1276 If set to on (default), parent hits are being marked too.
1277DOC_END
1278
1279NAME: zph_preserve_miss_tos
1280COMMENT: on|off
1281TYPE: onoff
1282IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1283DEFAULT: on
1284LOC: Config.onoff.zph_preserve_miss_tos
1285DOC_START
1286 If set to on (default), any HTTP response towards clients will
1287 have the TOS value of the response comming from the remote
1288 server masked with the value of zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask.
1289 For this to work correctly, you will need to patch your linux
1290 kernel with the TOS preserving ZPH patch.
1291 The kernel patch can be downloaded from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1292DOC_END
1293
1294NAME: zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask
1295TYPE: int
1296IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1297DEFAULT: 255
1298LOC: Config.zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask
1299DOC_START
1300 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS received from the
1301 remote server, before copying the value to the TOS send towards
1302 clients.
1303 Default: 255 (TOS from server is not changed).
1304DOC_END
1305
41bd17a4 1306NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1307TYPE: acl_address
1308DEFAULT: none
1309LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1310DOC_START
1311 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1312 based on the username or source address of the user making
1313 the request.
7f7db318 1314
41bd17a4 1315 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1316
41bd17a4 1317 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1318 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1319 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1320 source address 10.1.0.3.
9197cd13 1321
17148b2f 1322 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1323 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1324 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1325 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1326 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1327
41bd17a4 1328 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1329 matching line.
cccac0a2 1330
41bd17a4 1331 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1332 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1333 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1334 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1335
1336
1337 IPv6 Magic:
1338
1339 Squid is built with a capability of bridging the IPv4 and IPv6 internets.
1340 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1341 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1342 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1343
1344 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1345 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1346 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1347
1348 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1349 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1350 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1351
1352 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1353 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1354
1355 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
17148b2f 1356 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
cccac0a2 1357DOC_END
1358
41bd17a4 1359COMMENT_START
1360 SSL OPTIONS
1361 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1362COMMENT_END
1363
1364NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1365IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1366TYPE: onoff
1367DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1368LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1369DOC_START
41bd17a4 1370 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1371 messages.
cccac0a2 1372DOC_END
1373
41bd17a4 1374NAME: ssl_engine
1375IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1376TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1377LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1378DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1379DOC_START
41bd17a4 1380 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1381 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1382DOC_END
1383
41bd17a4 1384NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1385IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1386DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1387LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1388TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1389DOC_START
41bd17a4 1390 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1391DOC_END
1392
41bd17a4 1393NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1394IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1395DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1396LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1397TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1398DOC_START
41bd17a4 1399 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1400DOC_END
1401
41bd17a4 1402NAME: sslproxy_version
1403IFDEF: USE_SSL
1404DEFAULT: 1
1405LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1406TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1407DOC_START
41bd17a4 1408 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1409DOC_END
1410
41bd17a4 1411NAME: sslproxy_options
1412IFDEF: USE_SSL
1413DEFAULT: none
1414LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1415TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1416DOC_START
41bd17a4 1417 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1418DOC_END
1419
41bd17a4 1420NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1421IFDEF: USE_SSL
1422DEFAULT: none
1423LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1424TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1425DOC_START
41bd17a4 1426 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1427DOC_END
1428
41bd17a4 1429NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1430IFDEF: USE_SSL
1431DEFAULT: none
1432LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1433TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1434DOC_START
41bd17a4 1435 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1436 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1437DOC_END
0976f8db 1438
41bd17a4 1439NAME: sslproxy_capath
1440IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1441DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1442LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1443TYPE: string
5473c134 1444DOC_START
41bd17a4 1445 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1446 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1447DOC_END
1448
4c9da963 1449NAME: ssl_bump
1450IFDEF: USE_SSL
1451TYPE: acl_access
1452LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1453DEFAULT: none
1454DOC_START
1455 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1456 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1457 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1458 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1459
1460 By default, no requests are bumped.
1461
1462 See also: http_port sslBump
1463
1464NOCOMMENT_START
1465# Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1466# those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1467#
1468# acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1469# acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1470# acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1471# ssl_bump deny localhost
1472# ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1473# ssl_bump allow all
1474NOCOMMENT_END
1475DOC_END
1476
41bd17a4 1477NAME: sslproxy_flags
1478IFDEF: USE_SSL
1479DEFAULT: none
1480LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1481TYPE: string
5473c134 1482DOC_START
41bd17a4 1483 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1484 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1485 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1486 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1487 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1488DOC_END
1489
4c9da963 1490
1491NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1492IFDEF: USE_SSL
1493DEFAULT: none
1494LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1495TYPE: acl_access
1496DOC_START
1497 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1498
1499 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1500 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1501 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1502
1503 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1504 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1505 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1506
1507 This option must use fast ACL expressions only. Expressions that use
1508 external lookups or communication result in unpredictable behavior or
1509 crashes.
1510
1511 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1512 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1513 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1514 the connection may be insecure.
1515
1516 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1517
1518NOCOMMENT_START
1519#Default setting:
1520# sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1521NOCOMMENT_END
1522DOC_END
1523
1524
1525
41bd17a4 1526NAME: sslpassword_program
1527IFDEF: USE_SSL
1528DEFAULT: none
1529LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1530TYPE: string
5473c134 1531DOC_START
41bd17a4 1532 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1533 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1534 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1535 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
5473c134 1536DOC_END
1537
cccac0a2 1538COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1539 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 1540 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1541COMMENT_END
1542
41bd17a4 1543NAME: cache_peer
1544TYPE: peer
1545DEFAULT: none
1546LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1547DOC_START
41bd17a4 1548 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
cccac0a2 1549
41bd17a4 1550 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
cccac0a2 1551
41bd17a4 1552 For example,
cccac0a2 1553
41bd17a4 1554 # proxy icp
1555 # hostname type port port options
1556 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
1557 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 proxy-only default
1558 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1559 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
cccac0a2 1560
41bd17a4 1561 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
d5277f40 1562
41bd17a4 1563 proxy-port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
1564 requests.
8d6275c0 1565
41bd17a4 1566 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
1567 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
df2eec10 1568 specify '0' for the ICP port.
41bd17a4 1569 NOTE: Also requires icp_port option enabled to send/receive
1570 requests via this method.
a78278e2 1571
41bd17a4 1572 options: proxy-only
1573 weight=n
1574 basetime=n
1575 ttl=n
1576 no-query
1577 background-ping
1578 default
1579 round-robin
1580 weighted-round-robin
1581 carp
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1582 userhash
1583 sourcehash
41bd17a4 1584 multicast-responder
1585 closest-only
1586 no-digest
1587 no-netdb-exchange
1588 no-delay
1589 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
1590 connect-timeout=nn
1591 digest-url=url
1592 allow-miss
1593 max-conn=n
1594 htcp
1595 htcp-oldsquid
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1596 htcp-no-clr
1597 htcp-no-purge-clr
1598 htcp-only-clr
1599 htcp-forward-clr
41bd17a4 1600 originserver
1601 name=xxx
1602 forceddomain=name
1603 ssl
1604 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
1605 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
1606 sslversion=1|2|3|4
1607 sslcipher=...
1608 ssloptions=...
1609 front-end-https[=on|auto]
d67acb4e 1610 connection-auth[=on|off|auto]
cccac0a2 1611
41bd17a4 1612 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
1613 from this cache should not be saved locally.
cccac0a2 1614
41bd17a4 1615 use 'weight=n' to affect the selection of a peer
1616 during any weighted peer-selection mechanisms.
1617 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1618 larger weights are favored more.
1619 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1620 protocol is not in use.
cccac0a2 1621
41bd17a4 1622 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
1623 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
1624 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1625 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1626 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 1627
41bd17a4 1628 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
1629 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
1630 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1631 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1632 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1633 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
5473c134 1634
41bd17a4 1635 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
1636 neighbor.
5473c134 1637
41bd17a4 1638 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
1639 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
1640 round trip time updated and is usually used in
1641 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
cccac0a2 1642
41bd17a4 1643 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
1644 be used as a "last-resort" if a peer cannot be located
1645 by any of the peer-selection mechanisms.
1646 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
cccac0a2 1647
41bd17a4 1648 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
1649 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
1650 absence of any ICP queries.
cccac0a2 1651
41bd17a4 1652 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
1653 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
1654 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
1655 time. Closer parents are used more often.
1656 Usually used for background-ping parents.
cccac0a2 1657
41bd17a4 1658 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
1659 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
1660 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
382db7eb 1661 balancing hash function based on their weight.
cccac0a2 1662
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1663 use 'userhash' to load-balance amongst a set of parents
1664 based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
1665
1666 use 'sourcehash' to load-balance amongst a set of parents
1667 based on the client source ip.
1668
41bd17a4 1669 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
1670 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
1671 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
1672 will be accepted from it.
cccac0a2 1673
41bd17a4 1674 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
1675 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
1676 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
cccac0a2 1677
41bd17a4 1678 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
1679 this neighbor.
cccac0a2 1680
41bd17a4 1681 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
1682 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
cccac0a2 1683
41bd17a4 1684 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
1685 from influencing the delay pools.
7d90757b 1686
41bd17a4 1687 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
1688 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
1689 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
1690 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
7d90757b 1691
41bd17a4 1692 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
1693 the upstream proxy or in the case of a reverse proxy
1694 configuration, the origin web server. This will pass
1695 the users credentials as they are to the peer.
1696 This only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme.
1697 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
1698 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
1699 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
1700 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
1701 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
7d90757b 1702
41bd17a4 1703 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
1704 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
1705 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
1706 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
1707 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
1708 information which is added to the username. This can
1709 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
1710 the login=username:password option above.
cccac0a2 1711
41bd17a4 1712 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
1713 specific connect timeout (also see the
1714 peer_connect_timeout directive)
7f7db318 1715
41bd17a4 1716 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
1717 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
1718 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
1719 location.
cccac0a2 1720
41bd17a4 1721 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
1722 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
1723 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
1724 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
1725 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
1726 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
1727 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
1728 source is a peer)
cccac0a2 1729
41bd17a4 1730 use 'max-conn=n' to limit the amount of connections Squid
1731 may open to this peer.
cccac0a2 1732
41bd17a4 1733 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
1734 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
1735 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
0b48417e 1736 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1737 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1738
41bd17a4 1739 use 'htcp-oldsquid' to send HTCP to old Squid versions
0b48417e 1740 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1741 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1742
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1743 use 'htcp-no-clr' to send HTCP to the neighbor but without
1744 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
1745 htcp-only-clr.
1746
1747 use 'htcp-no-purge-clr' to send HTCP to the neighbor
1748 including CLRs but only when they do not result from
1749 PURGE requests.
1750
1751 use 'htcp-only-clr' to send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY
1752 CLR requests. This cannot be used with htcp-no-clr.
1753
1754 use 'htcp-forward-clr' to forward any HTCP CLR requests
1755 this proxy receives to the peer.
1756
41bd17a4 1757 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
1758 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
cccac0a2 1759
41bd17a4 1760 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
1761 host but different ports. This name can be used to
1762 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
1763 directives.
cccac0a2 1764
41bd17a4 1765 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
1766 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
1767 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
1768 name and using redirectors to feed this domain name
1769 is not feasible.
64658378 1770
41bd17a4 1771 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
1772 be SSL/TLS encrypted.
cccac0a2 1773
41bd17a4 1774 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
1775 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
4c9fa5d5 1776
41bd17a4 1777 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
1778 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
1779 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
1780 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
4c9fa5d5 1781
41bd17a4 1782 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
1783 when connecting to this peer
1784 1 = automatic (default)
1785 2 = SSL v2 only
1786 3 = SSL v3 only
1787 4 = TLS v1 only
cccac0a2 1788
41bd17a4 1789 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL ciphers
1790 to use when connecting to this peer.
cccac0a2 1791
41bd17a4 1792 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
1793 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1794 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1795 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1796 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
1797 a more complete list.
cccac0a2 1798
41bd17a4 1799 use sslcafile=... to specify a file containing
1800 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1801 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1802
41bd17a4 1803 use sslcapath=... to specify a directory containing
1804 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1805 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1806
41bd17a4 1807 use sslcrlfile=... to specify a certificate revocation
1808 list file to use when verifying the peer certificate.
1809
1810 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
1811 SSL implementation:
1812 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
1813 Accept certificates even if they fail to
1814 verify.
1815 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1816 Don't use the default CA list built in
1817 to OpenSSL.
1818 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
1819 Don't verify the peer certificate
1820 matches the server name
cccac0a2 1821
41bd17a4 1822 use ssldomain= to specify the peer name as advertised
1823 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
1824 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
1825 peer hostname will be used.
cccac0a2 1826
41bd17a4 1827 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
1828 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend in front
1829 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
1830 on this header. If set to auto the header will
1831 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
1832 URL.
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1833
1834 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid that this peer does
1835 not support Microsoft connection oriented authentication,
1836 and any such challenges received from there should be
1837 ignored. Default is auto to automatically determine the
1838 status of the peer.
41bd17a4 1839DOC_END
cccac0a2 1840
41bd17a4 1841NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
1842TYPE: hostdomain
1843DEFAULT: none
1844LOC: none
1845DOC_START
1846 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
1847 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 1848
41bd17a4 1849 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
1850 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 1851
41bd17a4 1852 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 1853
41bd17a4 1854 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 1855
41bd17a4 1856 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
1857 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
1858 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
1859 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
1860 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 1861
41bd17a4 1862 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
1863 either on the same or separate lines.
1864 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
1865 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
1866 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
1867 for all requests.
1868 * There are no defaults.
1869 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
1870 section.
1871DOC_END
dd9b1776 1872
41bd17a4 1873NAME: cache_peer_access
1874TYPE: peer_access
1875DEFAULT: none
1876LOC: none
1877DOC_START
1878 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
1879 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 1880
41bd17a4 1881 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 1882
41bd17a4 1883 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
1884 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
1885 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
1886DOC_END
dd9b1776 1887
41bd17a4 1888NAME: neighbor_type_domain
1889TYPE: hostdomaintype
1890DEFAULT: none
1891LOC: none
1892DOC_START
1893 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 1894
41bd17a4 1895 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
1896 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
1897 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
1898 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
1899 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
1900 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 1901
41bd17a4 1902EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 1903 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 1904 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
1905 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
1906DOC_END
6bf4f823 1907
41bd17a4 1908NAME: dead_peer_timeout
1909COMMENT: (seconds)
1910DEFAULT: 10 seconds
1911TYPE: time_t
1912LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
1913DOC_START
1914 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
1915 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
1916 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
1917 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
1918 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
1919 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 1920
41bd17a4 1921 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
1922 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
1923 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
1924 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
1925 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
1926 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
1927 instead of to your parents.
1928DOC_END
cccac0a2 1929
41bd17a4 1930NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
1931TYPE: wordlist
1932DEFAULT: none
1933LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
1934DOC_START
1935 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
1936 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
1937 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
1938 list this option multiple times.
1939 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
cccac0a2 1940NOCOMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1941#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
1942hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 1943NOCOMMENT_END
1944DOC_END
0976f8db 1945
41bd17a4 1946COMMENT_START
1947 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
1948 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1949COMMENT_END
1950
1951NAME: cache_mem
1952COMMENT: (bytes)
1953TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 1954DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 1955LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 1956DOC_START
41bd17a4 1957 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
1958 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
1959 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
1960 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
1961
1962 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
1963 for:
1964 * In-Transit objects
1965 * Hot Objects
1966 * Negative-Cached objects
1967
1968 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
1969 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
1970 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
1971 priority.
1972
1973 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
1974 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
1975 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
1976 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
1977 not needed for in-transit objects.
1978
1979 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
1980 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
1981 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
1982 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
1983 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
1984 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
1985 objects.
6b698a21 1986DOC_END
0976f8db 1987
41bd17a4 1988NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
1989COMMENT: (bytes)
1990TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 1991DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 1992LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 1993DOC_START
41bd17a4 1994 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
1995 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
1996 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
1997 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 1998DOC_END
0976f8db 1999
41bd17a4 2000NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2001TYPE: removalpolicy
2002LOC: Config.memPolicy
2003DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2004DOC_START
41bd17a4 2005 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2006 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2007
41bd17a4 2008 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2009DOC_END
6b698a21 2010
41bd17a4 2011COMMENT_START
2012 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2013 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2014COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2015
41bd17a4 2016NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2017TYPE: removalpolicy
2018LOC: Config.replPolicy
2019DEFAULT: lru
2020DOC_START
2021 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2022 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2023
41bd17a4 2024 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2025 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2026 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2027 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2028
41bd17a4 2029 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2030
41bd17a4 2031 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2032
41bd17a4 2033 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2034 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2035 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2036 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2037
41bd17a4 2038 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2039 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2040 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2041 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2042
41bd17a4 2043 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2044 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2045 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2046
41bd17a4 2047 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2048 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2049 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2050
41bd17a4 2051 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2052 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2053 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2054DOC_END
0976f8db 2055
41bd17a4 2056NAME: cache_dir
2057TYPE: cachedir
2058DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2059LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2060DOC_START
41bd17a4 2061 Usage:
0976f8db 2062
41bd17a4 2063 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2064
41bd17a4 2065 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2066 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2067
41bd17a4 2068 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2069 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2070 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2071
41bd17a4 2072 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2073 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2074 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2075 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2076 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2077
41bd17a4 2078 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2079
41bd17a4 2080 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2081 been there.
0976f8db 2082
41bd17a4 2083 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2084
41bd17a4 2085 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2086 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2087 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2088 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2089 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2090
41bd17a4 2091 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
2092 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2093
41bd17a4 2094 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
2095 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2096 is 256.
0976f8db 2097
41bd17a4 2098 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2099
41bd17a4 2100 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2101 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2102 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2103
41bd17a4 2104 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2105
41bd17a4 2106 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2107
41bd17a4 2108 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2109
41bd17a4 2110 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2111 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2112 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2113
41bd17a4 2114 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2115
41bd17a4 2116 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2117
41bd17a4 2118 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2119 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2120 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2121
41bd17a4 2122 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2123 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2124 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2125
41bd17a4 2126 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2127 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2128 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2129 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2130 time.
0976f8db 2131
41bd17a4 2132 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2133
41bd17a4 2134 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2135 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2136 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2137 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2138 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2139 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2140 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2141
41bd17a4 2142 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2143 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2144 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2145
41bd17a4 2146 Common options:
0976f8db 2147
41bd17a4 2148 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2149
41bd17a4 2150 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
2151 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
2152 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2153 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2154 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2155
41bd17a4 2156 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2157 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2158 option.
bebc043b 2159NOCOMMENT_START
df2eec10 2160# cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2161NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2162DOC_END
0976f8db 2163
41bd17a4 2164NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2165TYPE: string
2166LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2167DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2168DOC_START
41bd17a4 2169 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2170DOC_END
0976f8db 2171
41bd17a4 2172NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2173TYPE: int
2174LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2175DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2176DOC_START
41bd17a4 2177 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2178 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2179 descriptors are open.
2180
2181 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2182DOC_END
0976f8db 2183
41bd17a4 2184NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2185COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2186TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2187DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2188LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2189DOC_START
41bd17a4 2190 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2191 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2192 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2193DOC_END
0976f8db 2194
41bd17a4 2195NAME: maximum_object_size
2196COMMENT: (bytes)
2197TYPE: b_int64_t
2198DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2199LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2200DOC_START
41bd17a4 2201 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2202 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2203 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2204 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2205 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2206 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2207
41bd17a4 2208 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2209 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2210 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2211DOC_END
0976f8db 2212
41bd17a4 2213NAME: cache_swap_low
2214COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2215TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2216DEFAULT: 90
2217LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2218DOC_NONE
2219
2220NAME: cache_swap_high
2221COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2222TYPE: int
2223DEFAULT: 95
2224LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2225DOC_START
41bd17a4 2226
2227 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2228 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2229 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2230 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2231 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2232 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2233
2234 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2235 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2236 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2237DOC_END
0976f8db 2238
5473c134 2239COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2240 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2241 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2242COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2243
41bd17a4 2244NAME: logformat
2245TYPE: logformat
2246LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 2247DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2248DOC_START
41bd17a4 2249 Usage:
0976f8db 2250
41bd17a4 2251 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2252
41bd17a4 2253 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2254
41bd17a4 2255 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2256
41bd17a4 2257 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2258 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2259 as required according to their context and the output format
2260 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2261 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2262
41bd17a4 2263 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2264
41bd17a4 2265 " output in quoted string format
2266 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2267 # output in URL quoted format
2268 ' output as-is
5473c134 2269
41bd17a4 2270 - left aligned
2271 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2272 output is zero padded
2273 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2274
41bd17a4 2275 Format codes:
5473c134 2276
41bd17a4 2277 >a Client source IP address
2278 >A Client FQDN
2279 >p Client source port
2280 <A Server IP address or peer name
2281 la Local IP address (http_port)
2282 lp Local port number (http_port)
2283 ts Seconds since epoch
2284 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2285 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
2286 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2287 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
2288 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2289 tr Response time (milliseconds)
2290 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
2291 on the format header[:[separator]element]
2292 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2293 as for >h
2294 un User name
2295 ul User name from authentication
2296 ui User name from ident
2297 us User name from SSL
2298 ue User name from external acl helper
2299 Hs HTTP status code
2300 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2301 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2302 mt MIME content type
2303 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2304 ru Request URL
2305 rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2306 rv Request protocol version
2307 et Tag returned by external acl
2308 ea Log string returned by external acl
2309 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
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2310 >st Request size including HTTP headers
2311 st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
41bd17a4 2312 <sH Reply high offset sent
2313 <sS Upstream object size
2314 % a literal % character
5473c134 2315
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2316 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
2317
2318logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2319logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
41bd17a4 2320logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2321logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 2322DOC_END
2323
41bd17a4 2324NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2325TYPE: access_log
2326LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
02424612 2327DEFAULT: none
01ddaf65 2328DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 2329DOC_START
41bd17a4 2330 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2331 ICP request. The format is:
2332 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2333 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
5473c134 2334
41bd17a4 2335 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
2336 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2337 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
2338 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
5473c134 2339
41bd17a4 2340 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
2341 a logformat name should not be specified.
5473c134 2342
41bd17a4 2343 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
5473c134 2344
41bd17a4 2345 access_log syslog[:facility.priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
2346 where facility could be any of:
2347 authpriv, daemon, local0 .. local7 or user.
5473c134 2348
41bd17a4 2349 And priority could be any of:
2350 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
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2351
2352 Default:
2353 access_log @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 2354DOC_END
5473c134 2355
5b0f5383 2356NAME: log_access
2357TYPE: acl_access
2358LOC: Config.accessList.log
2359DEFAULT: none
2360COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2361DOC_START
2362 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2363 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2364 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2365DOC_END
2366
41bd17a4 2367NAME: cache_log
2368TYPE: string
02424612 2369DEFAULT: none
01ddaf65 2370DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
41bd17a4 2371LOC: Config.Log.log
2372DOC_START
2373 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
2374 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
2375 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
2376DOC_END
5473c134 2377
41bd17a4 2378NAME: cache_store_log
2379TYPE: string
df2eec10 2380DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2381LOC: Config.Log.store
2382DOC_START
2383 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2384 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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2385 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
2386 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 2387 disable it.
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2388NOCOMMENT_START
2389# cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
2390NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 2391DOC_END
2392
41bd17a4 2393NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2394TYPE: string
2395LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 2396DEFAULT: none
2397DOC_START
41bd17a4 2398 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2399 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2400 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2401 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2402 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2403 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2404 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 2405
41bd17a4 2406 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2407 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2408 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2409 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 2410
41bd17a4 2411 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2412 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 2413
41bd17a4 2414 cache_swap_log.00
2415 cache_swap_log.01
2416 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 2417
41bd17a4 2418 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2419 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2420 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2421 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2422 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2423 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2424 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 2425DOC_END
2426
41bd17a4 2427NAME: logfile_rotate
2428TYPE: int
2429DEFAULT: 10
2430LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 2431DOC_START
41bd17a4 2432 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2433 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2434 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2435 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2436 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2437 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 2438
41bd17a4 2439 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2440 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2441 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2442 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2443 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2444 <pid>'.
2445DOC_END
5473c134 2446
41bd17a4 2447NAME: emulate_httpd_log
2448COMMENT: on|off
2449TYPE: onoff
2450DEFAULT: off
2451LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
2452DOC_START
2453 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
2454 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
2455 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
2456 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
2457 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 2458DOC_END
2459
41bd17a4 2460NAME: log_ip_on_direct
2461COMMENT: on|off
2462TYPE: onoff
5473c134 2463DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 2464LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 2465DOC_START
41bd17a4 2466 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
2467 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
2468 prefer the old way set this to off.
2469DOC_END
5473c134 2470
41bd17a4 2471NAME: mime_table
2472TYPE: string
2473DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
2474LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
2475DOC_START
2476 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
2477 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
2478 information if you do.
5473c134 2479DOC_END
2480
41bd17a4 2481NAME: log_mime_hdrs
2482COMMENT: on|off
2483TYPE: onoff
2484LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
2485DEFAULT: off
2486DOC_START
2487 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
2488 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
2489 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
2490 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
2491 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
2492DOC_END
5473c134 2493
41bd17a4 2494NAME: useragent_log
2495TYPE: string
2496LOC: Config.Log.useragent
2497DEFAULT: none
2498IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 2499DOC_START
41bd17a4 2500 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
2501 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
2502 is disabled.
5473c134 2503DOC_END
2504
41bd17a4 2505NAME: referer_log referrer_log
2506TYPE: string
2507LOC: Config.Log.referer
2508DEFAULT: none
2509IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 2510DOC_START
41bd17a4 2511 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
2512 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
2513 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
2514 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
2515 and we accept both.
5473c134 2516DOC_END
2517
41bd17a4 2518NAME: pid_filename
2519TYPE: string
2520DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
2521LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 2522DOC_START
41bd17a4 2523 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 2524DOC_END
2525
41bd17a4 2526NAME: debug_options
fb6a61d1 2527TYPE: eol
41bd17a4 2528DEFAULT: ALL,1
2529LOC: Config.debugOptions
5473c134 2530DOC_START
41bd17a4 2531 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
2532 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
2533 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
2534 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
2535 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
2536 "ALL,1".
5473c134 2537DOC_END
2538
41bd17a4 2539NAME: log_fqdn
2540COMMENT: on|off
2541TYPE: onoff
2542DEFAULT: off
2543LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
5473c134 2544DOC_START
41bd17a4 2545 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
2546 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
2547 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
2548 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
2549 browsing.
5473c134 2550DOC_END
2551
41bd17a4 2552NAME: client_netmask
2553TYPE: address
2554LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
2555DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5473c134 2556DOC_START
41bd17a4 2557 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
2558 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
2559 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
2560 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 2561DOC_END
2562
41bd17a4 2563NAME: forward_log
2564IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
2565TYPE: string
2566DEFAULT: none
2567LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 2568DOC_START
41bd17a4 2569 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 2570
41bd17a4 2571 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 2572DOC_END
2573
41bd17a4 2574NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 2575TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 2576LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 2577DEFAULT: on
2578DOC_START
41bd17a4 2579 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
2580 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 2581DOC_END
2582
41bd17a4 2583NAME: buffered_logs
2584COMMENT: on|off
2585TYPE: onoff
2586DEFAULT: off
2587LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 2588DOC_START
41bd17a4 2589 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
2590 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
2591 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
2592 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
2593 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 2594DOC_END
0976f8db 2595
2b753521 2596NAME: netdb_filename
2597TYPE: string
2598DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2599LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 2600IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 2601DOC_START
2602 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
2603 To disable, enter "none".
2604DOC_END
2605
41bd17a4 2606COMMENT_START
2607 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
2608 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2609COMMENT_END
2610
2611NAME: ftp_user
2612TYPE: string
2613DEFAULT: Squid@
2614LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 2615DOC_START
41bd17a4 2616 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
2617 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
2618 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 2619
41bd17a4 2620 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
2621 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
2622 depending on how the cache is used.
2623 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
2624 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 2625DOC_END
0976f8db 2626
41bd17a4 2627NAME: ftp_list_width
2628TYPE: size_t
2629DEFAULT: 32
2630LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
6b698a21 2631DOC_START
41bd17a4 2632 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
2633 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
2634 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
6b698a21 2635DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2636
41bd17a4 2637NAME: ftp_passive
2638TYPE: onoff
2639DEFAULT: on
2640LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 2641DOC_START
41bd17a4 2642 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
2643 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 2644
2645 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
2646DOC_END
2647
2648NAME: ftp_epsv_all
2649TYPE: onoff
2650DEFAULT: off
2651LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
2652DOC_START
2653 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
2654
2655 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
2656 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
2657 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
2658
2659 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be useful.
2660 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
2661 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
2662
2663 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
2664 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
2665
2666 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default)
41bd17a4 2667DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2668
41bd17a4 2669NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
2670TYPE: onoff
2671DEFAULT: on
2672LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
2673DOC_START
2674 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
2675 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
2676 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
2677 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
2678 connection turn this off.
2679DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2680
41bd17a4 2681NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
2682TYPE: onoff
2683DEFAULT: on
2684LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
2685DOC_START
2686 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
2687 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
2688 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
2689 the FTP protocol.
2690
2691 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
2692 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
2693 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
2694 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
2695 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
2696DOC_END
2697
2698COMMENT_START
2699 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
2700 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2701COMMENT_END
2702
2703NAME: diskd_program
2704TYPE: string
2705DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
2706LOC: Config.Program.diskd
2707DOC_START
2708 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
2709 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
2710 diskd as one of the store io modules.
2711DOC_END
2712
2713NAME: unlinkd_program
2714IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
2715TYPE: string
2716DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
2717LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
2718DOC_START
2719 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
2720DOC_END
2721
2722NAME: pinger_program
2723TYPE: string
2724DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 2725LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 2726IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2727DOC_START
2728 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
2729DOC_END
2730
cc192b50 2731NAME: pinger_enable
2732TYPE: onoff
2733DEFAULT: on
2734LOC: Config.pinger.enable
2735IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2736DOC_START
2737 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
2738 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple squid -k reconfigure.
2739DOC_END
2740
2741
41bd17a4 2742COMMENT_START
2743 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
2744 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2745COMMENT_END
2746
2747NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
2748TYPE: wordlist
2749LOC: Config.Program.redirect
2750DEFAULT: none
2751DOC_START
2752 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
2753 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
2754
2755 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
2756
c71adec1 2757 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
2758
2759 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
2760 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
2761 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
2762 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 2763
2764 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
2765 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
2766
2767 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
2768 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2769 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
2770
2771 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
2772DOC_END
2773
2774NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
2775TYPE: int
2776DEFAULT: 5
2777LOC: Config.redirectChildren
2778DOC_START
2779 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
2780 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
2781 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
2782 and other system resources.
2783DOC_END
2784
2785NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
2786TYPE: int
2787DEFAULT: 0
2788LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
2789DOC_START
2790 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
2791 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
2792 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2793DOC_END
2794
2795NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
2796TYPE: onoff
2797DEFAULT: on
2798LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
2799DOC_START
2800 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
2801 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
2802 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
2803
2804 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
2805 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
2806DOC_END
2807
2808NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
2809TYPE: acl_access
2810DEFAULT: none
2811LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
2812DOC_START
2813 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
2814 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
2815 are sent.
2816DOC_END
2817
2818NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
2819TYPE: onoff
2820LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
2821DEFAULT: off
2822DOC_START
2823 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
2824 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
2825 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
2826 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
2827 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
2828 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
2829 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
2830 users may have access to pages they should not
2831 be allowed to request.
2832DOC_END
2833
2834COMMENT_START
2835 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2836 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2837COMMENT_END
2838
f04b37d8 2839NAME: cache no_cache
2840TYPE: acl_access
2841DEFAULT: none
2842LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 2843DOC_START
240887f0 2844 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 2845 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
2846 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 2847
240887f0 2848 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
2849 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 2850
240887f0 2851 Default is to allow all to be cached.
41bd17a4 2852DOC_END
2853
2854NAME: refresh_pattern
2855TYPE: refreshpattern
2856LOC: Config.Refresh
2857DEFAULT: none
2858DOC_START
2859 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 2860
6b698a21 2861 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2862 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2863
41bd17a4 2864 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2865 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2866 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2867 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2868 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 2869
41bd17a4 2870 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2871 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2872 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 2873
41bd17a4 2874 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2875 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 2876
41bd17a4 2877 options: override-expire
2878 override-lastmod
2879 reload-into-ims
2880 ignore-reload
2881 ignore-no-cache
2882 ignore-no-store
2883 ignore-private
2884 ignore-auth
2885 refresh-ims
a0ec9f68 2886
41bd17a4 2887 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
9b2ad080
HN
2888 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
2889 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
2890 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
2891 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
6468fe10 2892
41bd17a4 2893 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
2894 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 2895
41bd17a4 2896 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2897 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2898 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2899 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 2900
41bd17a4 2901 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2902 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2903 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2904 it causes.
9bc73deb 2905
41bd17a4 2906 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2907 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2908 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2909 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2910 send it anyway.
2911
2912 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2913 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2914 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2915 liable for problems which it causes.
2916
2917 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2918 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2919 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2920 liable for problems which it causes.
2921
2922 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2923 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
2924 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
2925 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
2926 it causes.
2927
2928 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2929 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2930 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2931 if one is available.
2932
2933 Basically a cached object is:
2934
2935 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2936 STALE if age > max
2937 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2938 FRESH if age < min
2939 else STALE
2940
2941 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2942 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
2943 match the default will be used.
2944
2945 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2946 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2947 used.
2948
2949Suggested default:
2950NOCOMMENT_START
2951refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2952refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 2953refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 2954refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2955NOCOMMENT_END
2956DOC_END
2957
2958NAME: quick_abort_min
2959COMMENT: (KB)
2960TYPE: kb_int64_t
2961DEFAULT: 16 KB
2962LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2963DOC_NONE
2964
2965NAME: quick_abort_max
2966COMMENT: (KB)
2967TYPE: kb_int64_t
2968DEFAULT: 16 KB
2969LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2970DOC_NONE
2971
2972NAME: quick_abort_pct
2973COMMENT: (percent)
2974TYPE: int
2975DEFAULT: 95
2976LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2977DOC_START
2978 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2979 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2980 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2981 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2982 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2983 downloads.
2984
2985 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2986 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2987 then.
2988
2989 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2990 it will finish the retrieval.
2991
2992 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2993 it will abort the retrieval.
2994
2995 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2996 it will finish the retrieval.
2997
2998 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2999 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3000 to '0 KB'.
3001
3002 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3003 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3004DOC_END
60d096f4 3005
41bd17a4 3006NAME: read_ahead_gap
3007COMMENT: buffer-size
3008TYPE: b_int64_t
3009LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3010DEFAULT: 16 KB
3011DOC_START
3012 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3013 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3014DOC_END
53e738c6 3015
41bd17a4 3016NAME: negative_ttl
ac9cc053 3017IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 3018COMMENT: time-units
3019TYPE: time_t
3020LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 3021DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 3022DOC_START
ac9cc053
AJ
3023 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3024 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3025 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3026 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3027 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3028 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3029
3030 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
39956c7c
AJ
3031
3032 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3033 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3034 causes.
41bd17a4 3035DOC_END
53e738c6 3036
41bd17a4 3037NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3038COMMENT: time-units
3039TYPE: time_t
3040LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3041DEFAULT: 6 hours
3042DOC_START
3043 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3044 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3045 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3046DOC_END
c4ab8329 3047
41bd17a4 3048NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3049COMMENT: time-units
3050TYPE: time_t
3051LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3052DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3053DOC_START
3054 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3055 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3056 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3057 much below 10 seconds.
3058DOC_END
7df0bfd7 3059
41bd17a4 3060NAME: range_offset_limit
3061COMMENT: (bytes)
3062TYPE: b_int64_t
3063LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
3064DEFAULT: 0 KB
3065DOC_START
3066 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
3067 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
3068 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
3069 is NOT cached.
c4ab8329 3070
41bd17a4 3071 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3072 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3073 sending anything to the client.
a7ad6e4e 3074
41bd17a4 3075 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
3076 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
a7ad6e4e 3077
41bd17a4 3078 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
3079 client requested. (default)
3080DOC_END
d95b862f 3081
41bd17a4 3082NAME: minimum_expiry_time
3083COMMENT: (seconds)
3084TYPE: time_t
3085LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
3086DEFAULT: 60 seconds
3087DOC_START
3088 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
3089 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 3090 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 3091 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
3092 is most likely better to make your server return a
3093 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
3094 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
3095 often be best set to 0.
3096DOC_END
c68e9c6b 3097
41bd17a4 3098NAME: store_avg_object_size
3099COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 3100TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 3101DEFAULT: 13 KB
3102LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3103DOC_START
3104 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3105 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 3106DOC_END
3107
41bd17a4 3108NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3109TYPE: int
3110DEFAULT: 20
3111LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3112DOC_START
3113 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3114 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3115 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
3116DOC_END
3117
3118COMMENT_START
3119 HTTP OPTIONS
3120 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3121COMMENT_END
3122
f04b37d8 3123NAME: request_header_max_size
3124COMMENT: (KB)
3125TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3126DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3127LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
3128DOC_START
3129 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
3130 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3131 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
3132 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3133 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3134DOC_END
3135
3136NAME: reply_header_max_size
3137COMMENT: (KB)
3138TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3139DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3140LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
3141DOC_START
3142 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
3143 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3144 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
3145 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3146 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3147DOC_END
3148
3149NAME: request_body_max_size
3150COMMENT: (bytes)
3151TYPE: b_int64_t
3152DEFAULT: 0 KB
3153LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
3154DOC_START
3155 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
3156 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
3157 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
3158 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
3159 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
3160 be no limit imposed.
3161DOC_END
3162
41bd17a4 3163NAME: broken_posts
cccac0a2 3164TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 3165DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3166LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 3167DOC_START
41bd17a4 3168 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
3169 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 3170
41bd17a4 3171 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
3172 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 3173
41bd17a4 3174 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 3175
41bd17a4 3176 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
3177 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
3178 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
3179 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 3180
41bd17a4 3181Example:
3182 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
3183 broken_posts allow buggy_server
3184DOC_END
cccac0a2 3185
41bd17a4 3186NAME: via
3187IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3188COMMENT: on|off
3189TYPE: onoff
3190DEFAULT: on
3191LOC: Config.onoff.via
3192DOC_START
3193 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3194 replies as required by RFC2616.
3195DOC_END
4cc6eb12 3196
41bd17a4 3197NAME: ie_refresh
3198COMMENT: on|off
3199TYPE: onoff
3200LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
3201DEFAULT: off
3202DOC_START
3203 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
3204 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
3205 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
3206 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
3207 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
3208 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
3209 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
3210 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
3211 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
3212 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
3213 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
3214 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
3215 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
3216 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
3217 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
3218 force fresh content.
3219DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 3220
41bd17a4 3221NAME: vary_ignore_expire
3222COMMENT: on|off
3223TYPE: onoff
3224LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
3225DEFAULT: off
3226DOC_START
3227 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
3228 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
3229 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
3230 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
3231 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
3232 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
3233 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 3234DOC_END
c4ab8329 3235
41bd17a4 3236NAME: request_entities
3237TYPE: onoff
3238LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
3239DEFAULT: off
3240DOC_START
3241 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
3242 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
3243 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 3244
41bd17a4 3245 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
3246 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
3247 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
3248 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
3249 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 3250DOC_END
6b53c392 3251
41bd17a4 3252NAME: request_header_access
3253IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3254TYPE: http_header_access[]
3255LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3256DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 3257DOC_START
41bd17a4 3258 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 3259
41bd17a4 3260 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3261 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3262 causes.
0976f8db 3263
41bd17a4 3264 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3265 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3266 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3267 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3268 mangling.
934b03fc 3269
41bd17a4 3270 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3271 client to the server.
5401aa8d 3272
41bd17a4 3273 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3274 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3275 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 3276
41bd17a4 3277 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3278 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 3279
41bd17a4 3280 request_header_access From deny all
3281 request_header_access Referer deny all
3282 request_header_access Server deny all
3283 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
3284 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3285 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 3286
41bd17a4 3287 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3288 you should use:
5401aa8d 3289
41bd17a4 3290 request_header_access Allow allow all
3291 request_header_access Authorization allow all
3292 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3293 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3294 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3295 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3296 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3297 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
3298 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
3299 request_header_access Date allow all
3300 request_header_access Expires allow all
3301 request_header_access Host allow all
3302 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3303 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3304 request_header_access Location allow all
3305 request_header_access Pragma allow all
3306 request_header_access Accept allow all
3307 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3308 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3309 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3310 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3311 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3312 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3313 request_header_access Title allow all
3314 request_header_access Connection allow all
3315 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3316 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 3317
41bd17a4 3318 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3319 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 3320
41bd17a4 3321 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3322 performed).
5401aa8d 3323DOC_END
3324
41bd17a4 3325NAME: reply_header_access
3326IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3327TYPE: http_header_access[]
3328LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 3329DEFAULT: none
3330DOC_START
41bd17a4 3331 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 3332
41bd17a4 3333 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3334 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3335 causes.
934b03fc 3336
41bd17a4 3337 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3338 server to the client.
934b03fc 3339
41bd17a4 3340 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3341 direction.
6b53c392 3342
41bd17a4 3343 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3344 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3345 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3346 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3347 mangling.
cccac0a2 3348
41bd17a4 3349 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3350 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3351 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 3352
41bd17a4 3353 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3354 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 3355
41bd17a4 3356 reply_header_access From deny all
3357 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3358 reply_header_access Server deny all
3359 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3360 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3361 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3362
41bd17a4 3363 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3364 you should use:
cccac0a2 3365
41bd17a4 3366 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3367 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3368 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3369 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3370 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3371 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3372 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3373 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3374 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3375 reply_header_access Date allow all
3376 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3377 reply_header_access Host allow all
3378 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3379 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3380 reply_header_access Location allow all
3381 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3382 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3383 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3384 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3385 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3386 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3387 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3388 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3389 reply_header_access Title allow all
3390 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3391 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3392 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 3393
41bd17a4 3394 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3395 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3396
41bd17a4 3397 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3398 performed).
cccac0a2 3399DOC_END
3400
41bd17a4 3401NAME: header_replace
3402IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3403TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3404LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3405DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3406DOC_START
3407 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3408 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 3409
41bd17a4 3410 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3411 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3412 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3413 option.
cccac0a2 3414
41bd17a4 3415 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 3416
41bd17a4 3417 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3418DOC_END
cccac0a2 3419
41bd17a4 3420NAME: relaxed_header_parser
3421COMMENT: on|off|warn
3422TYPE: tristate
3423LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
3424DEFAULT: on
3425DOC_START
3426 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
3427 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
3428 what the sending application intended even if the message
3429 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
3430 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 3431
41bd17a4 3432 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
3433 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 3434
41bd17a4 3435 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
3436 or response to be rejected.
3437DOC_END
7d90757b 3438
41bd17a4 3439COMMENT_START
3440 TIMEOUTS
3441 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3442COMMENT_END
3443
3444NAME: forward_timeout
3445COMMENT: time-units
3446TYPE: time_t
3447LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
3448DEFAULT: 4 minutes
3449DOC_START
3450 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
3451 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 3452DOC_END
3453
41bd17a4 3454NAME: connect_timeout
3455COMMENT: time-units
3456TYPE: time_t
3457LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
3458DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 3459DOC_START
41bd17a4 3460 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
3461 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
3462 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 3463DOC_END
3464
41bd17a4 3465NAME: peer_connect_timeout
3466COMMENT: time-units
3467TYPE: time_t
3468LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
3469DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3470DOC_START
41bd17a4 3471 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
3472 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
3473 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
3474 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
3475DOC_END
7f7db318 3476
41bd17a4 3477NAME: read_timeout
3478COMMENT: time-units
3479TYPE: time_t
3480LOC: Config.Timeout.read
3481DEFAULT: 15 minutes
3482DOC_START
3483 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
3484 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
3485 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
3486 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
3487 default is 15 minutes.
3488DOC_END
cccac0a2 3489
41bd17a4 3490NAME: request_timeout
3491TYPE: time_t
3492LOC: Config.Timeout.request
3493DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3494DOC_START
3495 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
3496 connection establishment.
3497DOC_END
cccac0a2 3498
41bd17a4 3499NAME: persistent_request_timeout
3500TYPE: time_t
3501LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
3502DEFAULT: 2 minutes
3503DOC_START
3504 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
3505 connection after the previous request completes.
3506DOC_END
cccac0a2 3507
41bd17a4 3508NAME: client_lifetime
3509COMMENT: time-units
3510TYPE: time_t
3511LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
3512DEFAULT: 1 day
3513DOC_START
3514 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
3515 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
3516 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
3517 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
3518 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
3519 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
3520 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 3521
41bd17a4 3522 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
3523 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
3524 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
3525 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
3526 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
3527 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 3528DOC_END
3529
41bd17a4 3530NAME: half_closed_clients
3531TYPE: onoff
3532LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
3533DEFAULT: on
4eb368f9 3534DOC_START
41bd17a4 3535 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
3536 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
3537 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
3538 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
3539 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
3540 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
3541 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
3542 "no more data to read."
4eb368f9 3543DOC_END
3544
41bd17a4 3545NAME: pconn_timeout
3546TYPE: time_t
3547LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
3548DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 3549DOC_START
41bd17a4 3550 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
3551 proxies.
3552DOC_END
cccac0a2 3553
41bd17a4 3554NAME: ident_timeout
3555TYPE: time_t
3556IFDEF: USE_IDENT
3557LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
3558DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3559DOC_START
3560 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 3561
41bd17a4 3562 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
3563 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
3564 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 3565DOC_END
3566
41bd17a4 3567NAME: shutdown_lifetime
3568COMMENT: time-units
3569TYPE: time_t
3570LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
3571DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3572DOC_START
41bd17a4 3573 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
3574 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
3575 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
3576 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
3577 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 3578DOC_END
0976f8db 3579
cccac0a2 3580COMMENT_START
3581 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
3582 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3583COMMENT_END
3584
3585NAME: cache_mgr
3586TYPE: string
3587DEFAULT: webmaster
3588LOC: Config.adminEmail
3589DOC_START
3590 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3591 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3592DOC_END
3593
abacf776 3594NAME: mail_from
3595TYPE: string
3596DEFAULT: none
3597LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3598DOC_START
3599 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3600 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3601 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3602 src/globals.h before building squid.
3603DOC_END
3604
d084bf20 3605NAME: mail_program
3606TYPE: eol
3607DEFAULT: mail
3608LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3609DOC_START
3610 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 3611 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 3612 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 3613 mail-program recipient < mailfile
3614
d084bf20 3615 Optional command line options can be specified.
3616DOC_END
3617
cccac0a2 3618NAME: cache_effective_user
3619TYPE: string
5483d916 3620DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 3621LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3622DOC_START
3623 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3624 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 3625 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 3626 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 3627DOC_END
3628
cccac0a2 3629NAME: cache_effective_group
3630TYPE: string
3631DEFAULT: none
3632LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
3633DOC_START
64e288bd 3634 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
3635 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
3636 from the groups membership.
3637
e3d74828 3638 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
3639 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
3640 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 3641 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 3642 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 3643 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 3644 group.
64e288bd 3645
3646 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
3647 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
3648 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 3649DOC_END
3650
d3caee79 3651NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
3652COMMENT: on|off
3653TYPE: onoff
3654DEFAULT: off
3655LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
3656DOC_START
3657 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
3658DOC_END
3659
cccac0a2 3660NAME: visible_hostname
3661TYPE: string
3662LOC: Config.visibleHostname
3663DEFAULT: none
3664DOC_START
3665 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 3666 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 3667 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
3668 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
3669 names with this setting.
3670DOC_END
3671
cccac0a2 3672NAME: unique_hostname
3673TYPE: string
3674LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
3675DEFAULT: none
3676DOC_START
3677 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 3678 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
3679 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 3680DOC_END
3681
cccac0a2 3682NAME: hostname_aliases
3683TYPE: wordlist
3684LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
3685DEFAULT: none
3686DOC_START
7f7db318 3687 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 3688DOC_END
0976f8db 3689
c642c141
AJ
3690NAME: umask
3691TYPE: int
3692LOC: Config.umask
3693DEFAULT: 027
3694DOC_START
3695 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
3696 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
3697
3698 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
3699 your value with 0.
3700DOC_END
3701
cccac0a2 3702COMMENT_START
3703 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3704 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3705
3706 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
3707 announcement service. This service is provided to help
3708 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
3709 create cache hierarchies.
3710
3711 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
3712 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
3713 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3714
3715 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
3716 following information from this configuration file:
3717
3718 http_port
3719 icp_port
3720 cache_mgr
3721
3722 All current information is processed regularly and made
3723 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
3724COMMENT_END
3725
3726NAME: announce_period
3727TYPE: time_t
3728LOC: Config.Announce.period
3729DEFAULT: 0
3730DOC_START
3731 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
3732 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
3733 messages.
3734
3735 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
3736 below.
3737
3738NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 3739#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
3740#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 3741NOCOMMENT_END
3742DOC_END
3743
cccac0a2 3744NAME: announce_host
3745TYPE: string
3746DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
3747LOC: Config.Announce.host
3748DOC_NONE
3749
3750NAME: announce_file
3751TYPE: string
3752DEFAULT: none
3753LOC: Config.Announce.file
3754DOC_NONE
3755
3756NAME: announce_port
3757TYPE: ushort
3758DEFAULT: 3131
3759LOC: Config.Announce.port
3760DOC_START
3761 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3762 number where the registration message will be sent.
3763
3764 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3765 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3766 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3767 message.
3768DOC_END
3769
8d6275c0 3770COMMENT_START
3771 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
3772 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3773COMMENT_END
3774
cccac0a2 3775NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
f41735ea 3776IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3777TYPE: string
3778LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3779DEFAULT: unset-id
3780DOC_START
3781 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3782 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3783 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3784 an identification token.
3785DOC_END
3786
3787NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
f41735ea 3788IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3789COMMENT: on|off
3790TYPE: onoff
3791DEFAULT: off
3792LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3793DOC_START
3794 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3795 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3796DOC_END
3797
3798NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 3799IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 3800COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3801TYPE: string
3802LOC: ESIParser::Type
3803DEFAULT: custom
3804DOC_START
3805 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3806 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3807 encodings.
3808DOC_END
0976f8db 3809
9edd9041 3810COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3811 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 3812 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3813COMMENT_END
3814
3815NAME: delay_pools
3816TYPE: delay_pool_count
3817DEFAULT: 0
3818IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3819LOC: Config.Delay
3820DOC_START
3821 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3822 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3823 have a total of 2 delay pools.
3824DOC_END
3825
3826NAME: delay_class
3827TYPE: delay_pool_class
3828DEFAULT: none
3829IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3830LOC: Config.Delay
3831DOC_START
3832 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3833 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3834 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3835 and here would be:
3836
3837Example:
3838 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
3839 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3840 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
3841 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
3842 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
3843
3844 The delay pool classes are:
3845
3846 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3847 bucket.
3848
3849 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3850 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3851 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3852
3853 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3854 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3855 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3856 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3857 32 of the IP address.
3858
3859 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
3860 additional limit on a per user basis. This
3861 only takes effect if the username is established
3862 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
3863 http_access rules.
3864
3865 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
3866 external_acl's tag= reply).
3867
3868 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3869 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3870 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3871 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
3872DOC_END
3873
3874NAME: delay_access
3875TYPE: delay_pool_access
3876DEFAULT: none
3877IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3878LOC: Config.Delay
3879DOC_START
3880 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
3881
3882 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
3883 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
3884 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
3885 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
3886
3887 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3888 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
3889
3890Example:
3891 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3892 delay_access 1 deny all
3893 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3894 delay_access 2 deny all
3895 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
3896DOC_END
3897
3898NAME: delay_parameters
3899TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3900DEFAULT: none
3901IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3902LOC: Config.Delay
3903DOC_START
3904 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3905 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3906 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
3907
3908delay_parameters pool aggregate
3909
3910 For a class 2 delay pool:
3911
3912delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
3913
3914 For a class 3 delay pool:
3915
3916delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
3917
3918 For a class 4 delay pool:
3919
3920delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
3921
3922 For a class 5 delay pool:
3923
3924delay_parameters pool tag
3925
3926 The variables here are:
3927
3928 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
3929 number specified in delay_pools as used in
3930 delay_class lines.
3931
3932 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
3933 (class 1, 2, 3).
3934
3935 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
3936 buckets (class 2, 3).
3937
3938 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
3939 (class 3).
3940
3941 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
3942 (class 4).
3943
3944 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
3945 (class 5).
3946
3947 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
3948 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
3949 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
3950 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
3951
3952 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
3953 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
3954 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
3955
3956delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
3957
3958 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
3959
3960 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
3961 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
3962 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
3963 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
3964 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
3965 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
3966 large downloads more significantly:
3967
3968delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
3969
3970 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
3971
3972 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
3973 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
3974
3975delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
3976DOC_END
3977
3978NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
3979COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3980TYPE: ushort
3981DEFAULT: 50
3982IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3983LOC: Config.Delay.initial
3984DOC_START
3985 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
3986 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
3987 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
3988 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
3989 "seen" by squid).
3990DOC_END
3991
cccac0a2 3992COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3993 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 3994 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3995COMMENT_END
3996
8d6275c0 3997NAME: wccp_router
3998TYPE: address
3999LOC: Config.Wccp.router
4000DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4001IFDEF: USE_WCCP
e313ab0a
AJ
4002DOC_START
4003 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4004 Squid.
4005
4006 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
4007
4008 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
4009
4010 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4011 which version of WCCP to use.
4012DOC_END
df2eec10 4013
8d6275c0 4014NAME: wccp2_router
cc192b50 4015TYPE: IPAddress_list
8d6275c0 4016LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 4017DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4018IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4019DOC_START
8d6275c0 4020 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4021 Squid.
cccac0a2 4022
8d6275c0 4023 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 4024
8d6275c0 4025 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 4026
8d6275c0 4027 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4028 which version of WCCP to use.
4029DOC_END
4030
4031NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 4032TYPE: int
8d6275c0 4033LOC: Config.Wccp.version
4034DEFAULT: 4
4035IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 4036DOC_START
8d6275c0 4037 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
4038 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
4039 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
4040 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
4041 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 4042
8d6275c0 4043 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4044 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4045 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4046 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 4047DOC_END
4048
8d6275c0 4049NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4050TYPE: onoff
4051LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4052DEFAULT: on
4053IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4054DOC_START
4055 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4056 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4057DOC_END
cccac0a2 4058
8d6275c0 4059NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 4060TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 4061LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 4062DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 4063IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4064DOC_START
699acd19 4065 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 4066 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4067
451c4786
AJ
4068 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4069 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4070
8d6275c0 4071 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4072 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 4073DOC_END
4074
8d6275c0 4075NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 4076TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 4077LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 4078DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 4079IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4080DOC_START
699acd19 4081 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 4082 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4083 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4084
451c4786
AJ
4085 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4086 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4087
8d6275c0 4088 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4089 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 4090
699acd19 4091 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 4092 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4093 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4094 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 4095DOC_END
4096
8d6275c0 4097NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 4098TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 4099LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 4100DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 4101IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4102DOC_START
8d6275c0 4103 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4104 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4105
451c4786
AJ
4106 hash - Hash assignment
4107 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 4108
8d6275c0 4109 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4110 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4111DOC_END
cccac0a2 4112
8d6275c0 4113NAME: wccp2_service
4114TYPE: wccp2_service
4115LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4116DEFAULT: none
4117DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4118IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4119DOC_START
4120 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4121 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4122 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4123 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4124 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4125 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4126
4127 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4128 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4129
4130 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4131 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4132
4133 Examples:
4134
4135 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4136 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4137 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4138 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 4139DOC_END
4140
4141NAME: wccp2_service_info
4142TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4143LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4144DEFAULT: none
4145IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4146DOC_START
4147 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4148 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4149
4150 The format is:
4151
4152 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4153 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4154
4155 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4156 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 4157 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 4158 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4159 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4160 + ports_source
4161
4162 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4163
4164 Example:
4165
4166 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4167 priority=240 ports=80
4168
4169 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4170 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4171DOC_END
4172
4173NAME: wccp2_weight
4174TYPE: int
4175LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4176DEFAULT: 10000
4177IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4178DOC_START
4179 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4180 hash proportional to their weight.
4181DOC_END
4182
4183NAME: wccp_address
4184TYPE: address
4185LOC: Config.Wccp.address
4186DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4187IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4188DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4189
8d6275c0 4190NAME: wccp2_address
4191TYPE: address
4192LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4193DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4194IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4195DOC_START
4196 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4197 interface address.
4198
4199 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4200DOC_END
4201
4202COMMENT_START
4203 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
4204 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4205
4206 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
4207COMMENT_END
4208
4209NAME: client_persistent_connections
4210TYPE: onoff
4211LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4212DEFAULT: on
4213DOC_NONE
4214
4215NAME: server_persistent_connections
4216TYPE: onoff
4217LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4218DEFAULT: on
4219DOC_START
4220 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4221 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4222 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4223 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4224DOC_END
4225
4226NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
4227TYPE: onoff
4228LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
4229DEFAULT: off
4230DOC_START
4231 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4232 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4233 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
4234DOC_END
4235
4236NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4237TYPE: onoff
4238LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4239DEFAULT: off
4240DOC_START
4241 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4242 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4243 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4244 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4245
4246 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4247 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
4248 after 10 seconds timeout.
4249DOC_END
4250
4251COMMENT_START
4252 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
4253 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4254COMMENT_END
4255
4256NAME: digest_generation
4257IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4258TYPE: onoff
4259LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4260DEFAULT: on
4261DOC_START
4262 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4263 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 4264 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 4265DOC_END
4266
4267NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4268IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4269TYPE: int
4270LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4271DEFAULT: 5
4272DOC_START
4273 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4274 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4275 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4276DOC_END
4277
4278NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4279IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4280COMMENT: (seconds)
4281TYPE: time_t
4282LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4283DEFAULT: 1 hour
4284DOC_START
749ceff8 4285 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 4286DOC_END
4287
4288NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4289COMMENT: (seconds)
4290IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4291TYPE: time_t
4292LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4293DEFAULT: 1 hour
4294DOC_START
749ceff8 4295 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 4296 disk.
4297DOC_END
4298
4299NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4300COMMENT: (bytes)
4301TYPE: b_size_t
4302IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4303LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4304DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4305DOC_START
4306 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4307 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4308 default swap page.
4309DOC_END
4310
4311NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4312COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4313IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4314TYPE: int
4315LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4316DEFAULT: 10
4317DOC_START
4318 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4319 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4320DOC_END
4321
1db9eacd 4322COMMENT_START
5473c134 4323 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 4324 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4325COMMENT_END
4326
5473c134 4327NAME: snmp_port
4328TYPE: ushort
4329LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 4330DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4331IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4332DOC_START
87630341 4333 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
4334 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
4335 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
4336 set to "0" (disabled)
4337NOCOMMENT_START
4338#snmp_port 3401
4339NOCOMMENT_END
8d6275c0 4340DOC_END
4341
5473c134 4342NAME: snmp_access
4343TYPE: acl_access
4344LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
8d6275c0 4345DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4346DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4347IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4348DOC_START
5473c134 4349 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 4350
5473c134 4351 All access to the agent is denied by default.
4352 usage:
8d6275c0 4353
5473c134 4354 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 4355
5473c134 4356Example:
4357 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
4358 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 4359DOC_END
4360
5473c134 4361NAME: snmp_incoming_address
4362TYPE: address
4363LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
4364DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4365IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4366DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4367
5473c134 4368NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
4369TYPE: address
4370LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
4371DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4372IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 4373DOC_START
df2eec10 4374 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 4375
5473c134 4376 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4377 messages from SNMP agents.
4378 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4379 agents.
cccac0a2 4380
5473c134 4381 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4382 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 4383
5473c134 4384 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
4385 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
4386 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4387 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 4388
5473c134 4389 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4390 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 4391DOC_END
4392
5473c134 4393COMMENT_START
4394 ICP OPTIONS
4395 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4396COMMENT_END
4397
4398NAME: icp_port udp_port
4399TYPE: ushort
4400DEFAULT: 0
4401LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 4402DOC_START
5473c134 4403 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
4404 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
4405 Default is disabled (0).
4406NOCOMMENT_START
df2eec10 4407#icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
5473c134 4408NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4409DOC_END
4410
5473c134 4411NAME: htcp_port
4412IFDEF: USE_HTCP
4413TYPE: ushort
87630341 4414DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4415LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 4416DOC_START
5473c134 4417 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 4418 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
4419 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
4420NOCOMMENT_START
4421#htcp_port 4827
4422NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4423DOC_END
4424
4425NAME: log_icp_queries
4426COMMENT: on|off
4427TYPE: onoff
4428DEFAULT: on
4429LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
4430DOC_START
4431 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
4432 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
4433 up or to simplify log analysis.
4434DOC_END
4435
5473c134 4436NAME: udp_incoming_address
4437TYPE: address
4438LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
4439DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
8524d4b2 4440DOC_START
4441 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
4442 caches.
4443
4444 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4445
4446 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
4447 a specific interface/address.
4448
4449 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4450 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4451
4452 see also; udp_outgoing_address
4453
4454 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
4455 have the same value since they both use the same port.
4456DOC_END
cccac0a2 4457
5473c134 4458NAME: udp_outgoing_address
4459TYPE: address
4460LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
4461DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
cccac0a2 4462DOC_START
8524d4b2 4463 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 4464 caches.
cccac0a2 4465
5473c134 4466 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4467
8524d4b2 4468 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
4469 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
4470 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 4471 caches.
4472
8524d4b2 4473 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4474 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4475
4476 see also; udp_incoming_address
4477
5473c134 4478 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 4479 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 4480DOC_END
4481
3d1e3e43 4482NAME: icp_hit_stale
4483COMMENT: on|off
4484TYPE: onoff
4485DEFAULT: off
4486LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
4487DOC_START
4488 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
4489 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
4490 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
4491 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
4492 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
4493 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
4494 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
4495DOC_END
4496
5473c134 4497NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 4498TYPE: int
5473c134 4499DEFAULT: 4
4500LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 4501DOC_START
5473c134 4502 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4503 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 4504DOC_END
4505
5473c134 4506NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
4507TYPE: int
4508DEFAULT: 400
4509LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 4510DOC_START
5473c134 4511 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4512 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 4513DOC_END
4514
cccac0a2 4515NAME: netdb_low
4516TYPE: int
4517DEFAULT: 900
4518LOC: Config.Netdb.low
4519DOC_NONE
4520
4521NAME: netdb_high
4522TYPE: int
4523DEFAULT: 1000
4524LOC: Config.Netdb.high
4525DOC_START
4526 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
4527 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
4528 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
4529 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
4530DOC_END
4531
cccac0a2 4532NAME: netdb_ping_period
4533TYPE: time_t
4534LOC: Config.Netdb.period
4535DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4536DOC_START
4537 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
4538 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
4539 network. The default is five minutes.
4540DOC_END
4541
cccac0a2 4542NAME: query_icmp
4543COMMENT: on|off
4544TYPE: onoff
4545DEFAULT: off
4546LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
4547DOC_START
4548 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
4549 replies, enable this option.
4550
4551 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 4552 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
4553 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 4554 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
4555 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
4556 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
4557 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
4558 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
4559DOC_END
4560
4561NAME: test_reachability
4562COMMENT: on|off
4563TYPE: onoff
4564DEFAULT: off
4565LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
4566DOC_START
4567 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
4568 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
4569 database, or has a zero RTT.
4570DOC_END
4571
5473c134 4572NAME: icp_query_timeout
4573COMMENT: (msec)
4574DEFAULT: 0
4575TYPE: int
4576LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 4577DOC_START
5473c134 4578 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
4579 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
4580 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
4581 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
4582 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
4583 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 4584
5473c134 4585 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 4586DOC_END
4587
5473c134 4588NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
4589COMMENT: (msec)
4590DEFAULT: 2000
4591TYPE: int
4592LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 4593DOC_START
5473c134 4594 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4595 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
4596 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
4597 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4598 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4599 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4600DOC_END
4601
5473c134 4602NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
4603COMMENT: (msec)
4604DEFAULT: 5
4605TYPE: int
4606LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 4607DOC_START
5473c134 4608 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4609 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
4610 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
4611 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
4612 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4613 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4614 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4615DOC_END
4616
5473c134 4617NAME: background_ping_rate
4618COMMENT: time-units
4619TYPE: time_t
4620DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4621LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 4622DOC_START
5473c134 4623 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
4624 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 4625DOC_END
4626
5473c134 4627COMMENT_START
4628 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
4629 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4630COMMENT_END
4631
4632NAME: mcast_groups
4633TYPE: wordlist
4634LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 4635DEFAULT: none
4636DOC_START
5473c134 4637 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
4638 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 4639
5473c134 4640 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
4641 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
4642 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
4643 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
4644 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
4645 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
4646 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 4647
5473c134 4648 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
4649 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 4650
5473c134 4651 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
4652 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 4653
5473c134 4654 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 4655
5473c134 4656 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
4657DOC_END
8c01ada0 4658
5473c134 4659NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4660IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4661TYPE: address
4662LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4663DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4664DOC_START
4665 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4666 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 4667
5473c134 4668 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4669 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 4670DOC_END
4671
5473c134 4672NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
4673IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4674TYPE: ushort
4675LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4676DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 4677DOC_START
5473c134 4678 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4679 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4680 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4681DOC_END
cccac0a2 4682
5473c134 4683NAME: mcast_miss_port
4684IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4685TYPE: ushort
4686LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4687DEFAULT: 3135
4688DOC_START
4689 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4690 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4691DOC_END
cccac0a2 4692
5473c134 4693NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4694IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4695TYPE: string
4696LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4697DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4698DOC_START
4699 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4700 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4701DOC_END
8c01ada0 4702
5473c134 4703NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
4704COMMENT: (msec)
4705DEFAULT: 2000
4706TYPE: int
4707LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
4708DOC_START
4709 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
4710 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
4711 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
4712 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
4713 seconds.
cccac0a2 4714DOC_END
4715
5473c134 4716COMMENT_START
4717 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
4718 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4719COMMENT_END
4720
cccac0a2 4721NAME: icon_directory
4722TYPE: string
4723LOC: Config.icons.directory
4724DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4725DOC_START
4726 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
4727 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4728DOC_END
4729
f024c970 4730NAME: global_internal_static
4731TYPE: onoff
4732LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
4733DEFAULT: on
4734DOC_START
4735 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
4736 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
4737 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
4738 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
4739 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
4740 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
4741 the server generating a directory listing.
4742DOC_END
4743
5473c134 4744NAME: short_icon_urls
4745TYPE: onoff
4746LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
4747DEFAULT: on
4748DOC_START
4749 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
4750 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
4751 it's own name and port in the URL.
4752
4753 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
4754 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
4755DOC_END
4756
4757COMMENT_START
4758 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
4759 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4760COMMENT_END
4761
4762NAME: error_directory
4763TYPE: string
4764LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 4765DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4766DOC_START
4767 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
43000484
AJ
4768 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
4769 the error/template files to another directory and point
4770 this tag at them.
4771
4772 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
4773 on error pages if used.
5473c134 4774
4775 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4776 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 4777 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 4778 contributing your translation back to the project.
43000484
AJ
4779 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
4780
4781 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
4782 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
4783DOC_END
4784
4785NAME: error_default_language
4786IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
4787TYPE: string
4788LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
4789DEFAULT: none
4790DOC_START
4791 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
4792 if no existing translation matches the clients language
4793 preferences.
4794
4795 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
4796
4797 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4798 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
4799 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
4800 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 4801DOC_END
4802
c411820c
AJ
4803NAME: error_log_languages
4804IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
4805TYPE: onoff
4806LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
4807DEFAULT: on
4808DOC_START
4809 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
4810 auto-negotiate for translations.
4811
4812 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
4813 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
4814 of is error page translations.
4815DOC_END
4816
5473c134 4817NAME: err_html_text
4818TYPE: eol
4819LOC: Config.errHtmlText
4820DEFAULT: none
4821DOC_START
4822 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
4823 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
4824 organizations Web page.
4825
4826 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
4827 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
4828 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
4829 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
4830DOC_END
4831
4832NAME: email_err_data
4833COMMENT: on|off
4834TYPE: onoff
4835LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
4836DEFAULT: on
4837DOC_START
4838 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
4839 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
4840 so that the email body contains the data.
4841 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
4842DOC_END
4843
4844NAME: deny_info
4845TYPE: denyinfo
4846LOC: Config.denyInfoList
4847DEFAULT: none
4848DOC_START
4849 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
4850 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 4851 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 4852
4853 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
4854 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
4855 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
4856 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
4857
4858 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
4859 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
4860 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
4861 the first authentication related acl encountered
4862 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
4863 acl processed on the last http_access line.
4864
43000484
AJ
4865 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
4866 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
4867 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 4868
4869 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
4870 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
4871 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
4872
4873 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
4874 by specifying TCP_RESET.
4875DOC_END
4876
4877COMMENT_START
4878 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
4879 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4880COMMENT_END
4881
4882NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4883TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4884LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4885DEFAULT: on
4886DOC_START
5473c134 4887 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4888 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
4889 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 4890
5473c134 4891 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
4892 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 4893
5473c134 4894 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4895 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4896 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 4897
5473c134 4898 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
4899 this directive.
8d6275c0 4900DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 4901
5473c134 4902NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4903TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4904LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4905DEFAULT: off
4906DOC_START
5473c134 4907 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
4908 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
4909 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 4910
5473c134 4911 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4912 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4913 fails.
4914
4915 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4916 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
4917 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 4918DOC_END
4919
5473c134 4920NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 4921TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 4922LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 4923DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 4924DOC_START
5473c134 4925 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 4926
5473c134 4927 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
4928 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
4929 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
4930 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
4931 something like:
0b0cfcf2 4932
5473c134 4933 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
4934 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 4935
5473c134 4936 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 4937
5473c134 4938 acl FTP proto FTP
4939 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 4940
5473c134 4941 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
4942 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
4943 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
4944 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
4945 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 4946
5473c134 4947 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4948 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
4949 always_direct deny local-external
4950 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 4951
5473c134 4952 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
4953 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
4954 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
4955 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 4956
5473c134 4957 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
4958 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
4959 the replies see no_cache.
4960
4961 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
4962 and local_ip.
cccac0a2 4963DOC_END
0976f8db 4964
5473c134 4965NAME: never_direct
4966TYPE: acl_access
4967LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
4968DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4969DOC_START
5473c134 4970 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4971
4972 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
4973 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
4974
4975 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
4976 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
4977 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
4978 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
4979
4980 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 4981 never_direct deny local-servers
4982 never_direct allow all
4983
4984 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
4985 servers inside the firewall use something like:
4986
4987 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
4988 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4989 always_direct deny local-external
4990 always_direct allow local-intranet
4991 never_direct allow all
4992
4993 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
4994 and firewall_ip.
8d6275c0 4995DOC_END
0976f8db 4996
5473c134 4997COMMENT_START
4998 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
4999 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5000COMMENT_END
5001
cccac0a2 5002NAME: incoming_icp_average
5003TYPE: int
5004DEFAULT: 6
5005LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
5006DOC_NONE
5007
5008NAME: incoming_http_average
5009TYPE: int
5010DEFAULT: 4
5011LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
5012DOC_NONE
5013
5014NAME: incoming_dns_average
5015TYPE: int
5016DEFAULT: 4
5017LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
5018DOC_NONE
5019
5020NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
5021TYPE: int
5022DEFAULT: 8
5023LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
5024DOC_NONE
5025
5026NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
5027TYPE: int
5028DEFAULT: 8
5029LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
5030DOC_NONE
5031
5032NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
5033TYPE: int
5034DEFAULT: 8
5035LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
5036DOC_START
5473c134 5037 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
5038 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
5039 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
5040DOC_END
5041
5042NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 5043TYPE: string
5044DEFAULT: none
5045LOC: Config.accept_filter
5046DOC_START
0b4d4be5 5047 FreeBSD:
5048
5473c134 5049 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
5050 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
5051 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
5052
5053 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 5054 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 5055 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
5056
5057 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
5058 to Squid until there is some data to process.
5059 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
5060
5061 Linux:
5062
5063 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
5064 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
5065 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
5066 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
5067 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 5068EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 5069# FreeBSD
5473c134 5070accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 5071# Linux
5072accept_filter data
5473c134 5073DOC_END
5074
5075NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
5076COMMENT: (bytes)
5077TYPE: b_size_t
5078DEFAULT: 0 bytes
5079LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
5080DOC_START
5081 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
5082 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
5083 the default buffer size.
5084DOC_END
5085
5086COMMENT_START
5087 ICAP OPTIONS
5088 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5089COMMENT_END
5090
5091NAME: icap_enable
5092TYPE: onoff
5093IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5094COMMENT: on|off
5095LOC: TheICAPConfig.onoff
5096DEFAULT: off
5097DOC_START
53e738c6 5098 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 5099DOC_END
5100
5101NAME: icap_connect_timeout
5102TYPE: time_t
5103DEFAULT: none
5104LOC: TheICAPConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5105IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5106DOC_START
5107 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5108 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
5109 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
5110
5111 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
5112 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
5113 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
5114DOC_END
5115
5116NAME: icap_io_timeout
5117COMMENT: time-units
5118TYPE: time_t
5119DEFAULT: none
5120LOC: TheICAPConfig.io_timeout_raw
5121IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5122DOC_START
5123 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
5124 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
5125 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
5126 failure.
5127
5128 The default is read_timeout.
5129DOC_END
5130
5131NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
5132TYPE: int
5133IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5134LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_failure_limit
5135DEFAULT: 10
5136DOC_START
5137 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
5138 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
5139 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
5140 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
5141 OPTIONS. The per-service failure counter is reset to zero each
5142 time Squid fetches new service OPTIONS.
5143
5144 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
5145 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
5146 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5147DOC_END
5148
5473c134 5149NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 5150TYPE: int
5473c134 5151IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5152LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_revival_delay
5153DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 5154DOC_START
5473c134 5155 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
5156 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
5157 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
5158 fetched.
cccac0a2 5159
5473c134 5160 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
5161 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 5162DOC_END
5163
5473c134 5164NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 5165TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5166IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5167COMMENT: on|off
5168LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 5169DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5170DOC_START
ac7a62f9 5171 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
5172 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
5173 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
5174 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
5175
5176 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
5177 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
5178 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
5179
5180 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
5181 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
5182Example:
5183icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 5184DOC_END
5185
5473c134 5186NAME: icap_preview_size
5187TYPE: int
5188IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5189LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_size
5190DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 5191DOC_START
53e738c6 5192 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
5193 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
5194 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5195DOC_END
5196
5473c134 5197NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
5198TYPE: int
5199IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5200LOC: TheICAPConfig.default_options_ttl
5201DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 5202DOC_START
53e738c6 5203 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 5204 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 5205DOC_END
5206
5473c134 5207NAME: icap_persistent_connections
5208TYPE: onoff
5209IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5210COMMENT: on|off
5211LOC: TheICAPConfig.reuse_connections
5212DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5213DOC_START
5473c134 5214 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
5215 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 5216DOC_END
5217
5473c134 5218NAME: icap_send_client_ip
5219TYPE: onoff
5220IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5221COMMENT: on|off
5222LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_ip
5223DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5224DOC_START
53e738c6 5225 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 5226DOC_END
5227
5473c134 5228NAME: icap_send_client_username
5229TYPE: onoff
5230IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5231COMMENT: on|off
5232LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_username
5233DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5234DOC_START
5473c134 5235 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
5236 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
5237 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
5238 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 5239DOC_END
5240
5473c134 5241NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 5242TYPE: string
5473c134 5243IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5244LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_header
5245DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 5246DOC_START
5473c134 5247 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 5248DOC_END
5249
5473c134 5250NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 5251TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5252IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5253COMMENT: on|off
5254LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_encode
5255DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5256DOC_START
5473c134 5257 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 5258DOC_END
5259
5473c134 5260NAME: icap_service
5261TYPE: icap_service_type
5262IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5263LOC: TheICAPConfig
5264DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5265DOC_START
53e738c6 5266 Defines a single ICAP service
cccac0a2 5267
53e738c6 5268 icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
7d90757b 5269
53e738c6 5270 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 5271 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
5272 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
5273 are not yet supported.
53e738c6 5274 bypass = 1|0
f3db09e2 5275 If set to 1, the ICAP service is treated as optional. If the
5276 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
5277 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
5278 was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be bypassed.
5279 If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as essential and all
5280 ICAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
5281 HTTP client.
53e738c6 5282 service_url = icap://servername:port/service
5473c134 5283
5473c134 5284Example:
5285icap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
5286icap_service service_2 respmod_precache 0 icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 5287DOC_END
5288
5473c134 5289NAME: icap_class
5290TYPE: icap_class_type
5291IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 5292LOC: none
5473c134 5293DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5294DOC_START
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5295 This depricated option was documented to define an ICAP service
5296 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
5297 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 5298
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5299 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
5300 adaptation_service_set directive.
5473c134 5301
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5302 If you need adaptation service chains, patches or sponsorship
5303 is welcome.
cccac0a2 5304DOC_END
5305
5473c134 5306NAME: icap_access
5307TYPE: icap_access_type
5308IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 5309LOC: none
cccac0a2 5310DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5311DOC_START
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5312 This option is depricated. Please use adaptation_access, which
5313 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
5314 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 5315DOC_END
5316
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5317COMMENT_START
5318 eCAP OPTIONS
5319 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5320COMMENT_END
5321
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5322NAME: ecap_enable
5323TYPE: onoff
5324IFDEF: USE_ECAP
5325COMMENT: on|off
5326LOC: Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
5327DEFAULT: off
5328DOC_START
5329 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
5330DOC_END
5331
5332NAME: ecap_service
5333TYPE: ecap_service_type
5334IFDEF: USE_ECAP
5335LOC: Ecap::TheConfig
5336DEFAULT: none
5337DOC_START
5338 Defines a single eCAP service
5339
5340 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
5341
5342 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
5343 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
5344 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
5345 are not yet supported.
5346 bypass = 1|0
5347 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
5348 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
5349 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
5350 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
5351 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
5352 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
5353 HTTP client.
5354 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
5355
5356Example:
5357ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
5358ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
5359DOC_END
5360
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5361NAME: loadable_modules
5362TYPE: wordlist
5363IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
5364LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
5365DEFAULT: none
5366DOC_START
5367 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
5368 preloaded module(s).
5369Example:
5370loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
5371DOC_END
5372
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5373COMMENT_START
5374 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
5375 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5376COMMENT_END
5377
5378NAME: adaptation_service_set
5379TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
5380IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5381LOC: none
5382DEFAULT: none
5383DOC_START
5384
5385 Defines a named adaptation service set. The set is populated in
5386 the order of adaptation_service_set directives in this file.
5387 When adaptation ACLs are processed, the first and only the first
5388 applicable adaptation service from the set will be used. Thus,
5389 the set should group similar, redundant services, rather than a
5390 chain of complementary services.
5391
5392 If you have a single adaptation service, you do not need to
5393 define a set containing it because adaptation_access accepts
5394 service names.
5395
5396 See also: adaptation_access
5397
5398Example:
5399adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
5400adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
5401DOC_END
5402
5403NAME: adaptation_access
5404TYPE: adaptation_access_type
5405IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5406LOC: none
5407DEFAULT: none
5408DOC_START
5409 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
5410
5411 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
5412 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
5413
5414 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
5415 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
5416 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
5417 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
5418
5419 - services serving different vectoring points
5420 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
5421 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
5422 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
5423
5424 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
5425 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
5426 adaptation_service_set for details.
5427
5428 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
5429 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
5430 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
5431 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
5432
5433 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
5434 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
5435
5436 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
5437
5438Example:
5439adaptation_access service_1 allow all
5440DOC_END
5441
5473c134 5442COMMENT_START
5443 DNS OPTIONS
5444 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5445COMMENT_END
5446
5447NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 5448TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5449DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5450LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 5451DOC_START
5473c134 5452 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
5453 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
5454 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 5455DOC_END
5456
5473c134 5457NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 5458TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5459DEFAULT: on
5473c134 5460LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 5461DOC_START
5473c134 5462 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
5463 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
5464 Squid to be strict about the standard.
5465 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 5466DOC_END
5467
5473c134 5468NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 5469TYPE: string
5473c134 5470IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
5471DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
5472LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 5473DOC_START
5473c134 5474 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 5475DOC_END
5476
5473c134 5477NAME: dns_children
5478TYPE: int
5479IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
5480DEFAULT: 5
5481LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 5482DOC_START
5473c134 5483 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
5484 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
5485 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
5486 is 32. The default is 5.
58850d15 5487
5473c134 5488 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
58850d15 5489DOC_END
5490
5473c134 5491NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
5492TYPE: time_t
5493DEFAULT: 5 seconds
5494LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
5495IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 5496DOC_START
5473c134 5497 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
5498 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 5499
cccac0a2 5500DOC_END
5501
5473c134 5502NAME: dns_timeout
5503TYPE: time_t
5504DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5505LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
5506IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 5507DOC_START
5473c134 5508 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
5509 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
5510 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 5511DOC_END
5512
5473c134 5513NAME: dns_defnames
5514COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 5515TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5516DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5517LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 5518DOC_START
5473c134 5519 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
5520 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
5521 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
5522 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 5523DOC_END
5524
5473c134 5525NAME: dns_nameservers
5526TYPE: wordlist
5527DEFAULT: none
5528LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 5529DOC_START
5473c134 5530 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
5531 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
5532 /etc/resolv.conf file.
5533 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
5534 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
5535 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
5536 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 5537
5473c134 5538 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 5539DOC_END
5540
5473c134 5541NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 5542TYPE: string
5473c134 5543DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
5544LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 5545DOC_START
5473c134 5546 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
5547 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
5548 default locations:
5549 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
5550 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5551 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
5552 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5553 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
5554 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
5555 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
5556 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 5557
5473c134 5558 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
5559 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
5560 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
5561 character are comments.
cccac0a2 5562
5473c134 5563 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
5564 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
5565 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
5566 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
5567 definitions.
cccac0a2 5568DOC_END
5569
5473c134 5570NAME: append_domain
5571TYPE: string
5572LOC: Config.appendDomain
5573DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 5574DOC_START
5473c134 5575 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
5576 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
5577
5578 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
5579 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
5580 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
5581
5582Example:
5583 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 5584DOC_END
5585
5473c134 5586NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
5587TYPE: onoff
5588LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 5589DEFAULT: on
5590DOC_START
5473c134 5591 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
5592 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
5593 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
5594 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
5595 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 5596DOC_END
5597
cc192b50 5598NAME: dns_v4_fallback
5599TYPE: onoff
5600DEFAULT: on
5601LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
5602DOC_START
5603 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
5604 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
5605 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
5606
5607 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
5608 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
5609
5610 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
5611 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
5612
5613 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
5614 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
5615 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
5616DOC_END
5617
6bc15a4f 5618NAME: ipcache_size
5619COMMENT: (number of entries)
5620TYPE: int
5621DEFAULT: 1024
5622LOC: Config.ipcache.size
5623DOC_NONE
5624
5625NAME: ipcache_low
5626COMMENT: (percent)
5627TYPE: int
5628DEFAULT: 90
5629LOC: Config.ipcache.low
5630DOC_NONE
5631
5632NAME: ipcache_high
5633COMMENT: (percent)
5634TYPE: int
5635DEFAULT: 95
5636LOC: Config.ipcache.high
5637DOC_START
5638 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
5639DOC_END
5640
5641NAME: fqdncache_size
5642COMMENT: (number of entries)
5643TYPE: int
5644DEFAULT: 1024
5645LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
5646DOC_START
5647 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
5648DOC_END
5649
a58ff010 5650COMMENT_START
5473c134 5651 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 5652 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5653COMMENT_END
5654
5473c134 5655NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 5656COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5657TYPE: onoff
5658DEFAULT: on
5659LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 5660DOC_START
5473c134 5661 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
5662 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
5663 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
5664 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 5665DOC_END
5666
5473c134 5667NAME: memory_pools_limit
5668COMMENT: (bytes)
5669TYPE: b_size_t
5670DEFAULT: 5 MB
5671LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 5672DOC_START
5473c134 5673 Used only with memory_pools on:
5674 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 5675
5473c134 5676 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
5677 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
5678 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
5679 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
5680 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
5681 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
5682 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 5683
5473c134 5684 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5685 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 5686
5473c134 5687 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
5688 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5689
5690 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
5691 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
5692 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
5693 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 5694DOC_END
5695
5473c134 5696NAME: forwarded_for
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5697COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
5698TYPE: string
5473c134 5699DEFAULT: on
5700LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 5701DOC_START
67c06f0d
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5702 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
5703 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 5704
5473c134 5705 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
5706
67c06f0d 5707 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 5708
5709 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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5710
5711 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
5712 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
5713
5714 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
5715 X-Forwarded-For header.
5716
5717 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
5718 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place itself as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 5719DOC_END
5720
5473c134 5721NAME: cachemgr_passwd
5722TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
5723DEFAULT: none
5724LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 5725DOC_START
5473c134 5726 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 5727
5473c134 5728 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
5729
5730 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
5731 5min
5732 60min
5733 asndb
5734 authenticator
5735 cbdata
5736 client_list
5737 comm_incoming
5738 config *
5739 counters
5740 delay
5741 digest_stats
5742 dns
5743 events
5744 filedescriptors
5745 fqdncache
5746 histograms
5747 http_headers
5748 info
5749 io
5750 ipcache
5751 mem
5752 menu
5753 netdb
5754 non_peers
5755 objects
5756 offline_toggle *
5757 pconn
5758 peer_select
b360c477 5759 reconfigure *
5473c134 5760 redirector
5761 refresh
5762 server_list
5763 shutdown *
5764 store_digest
5765 storedir
5766 utilization
5767 via_headers
5768 vm_objects
5769
5770 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
5771 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
5772
5773 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
5774 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
5775 password to "none".
5776
5777 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
5778
5779Example:
5780 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
5781 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
5782 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 5783DOC_END
5784
5473c134 5785NAME: client_db
a58ff010 5786COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5787TYPE: onoff
5788DEFAULT: on
5789LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 5790DOC_START
5473c134 5791 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
5792 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 5793DOC_END
5794
5473c134 5795NAME: refresh_all_ims
5796COMMENT: on|off
5797TYPE: onoff
5798DEFAULT: off
5799LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 5800DOC_START
5473c134 5801 When you enable this option, squid will always check
5802 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
5803 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
5804 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
5805 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 5806
5473c134 5807 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
5808 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 5809DOC_END
5810
5473c134 5811NAME: reload_into_ims
5812IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 5813COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5814TYPE: onoff
5815DEFAULT: off
5816LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 5817DOC_START
5473c134 5818 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
5819 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
5820 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
5821 feature could make you liable for problems which it
5822 causes.
5823
5824 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 5825DOC_END
5826
5473c134 5827NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
5828TYPE: int
5829LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
5830DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 5831DOC_START
5473c134 5832 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
5833 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
5834 each address is tried once).
5835
5836 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
5837 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
5838 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
5839
5840 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
5841 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 5842DOC_END
5843
5473c134 5844NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 5845TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5846LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 5847DEFAULT: off
5848DOC_START
5473c134 5849 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
5850 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
5851 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
5852 control errors.
5f8252d2 5853DOC_END
5854
5473c134 5855NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 5856TYPE: string
5473c134 5857LOC: Config.as_whois_server
5858DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5859DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 5860DOC_START
5473c134 5861 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
5862 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 5863DOC_END
5864
5473c134 5865NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 5866TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5867LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 5868DEFAULT: off
5869DOC_START
5473c134 5870 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
5871 objects.
a58ff010 5872DOC_END
5873
5473c134 5874NAME: uri_whitespace
5875TYPE: uri_whitespace
5876LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
5877DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 5878DOC_START
5473c134 5879 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
5880 URI. Options:
a58ff010 5881
5473c134 5882 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
5883 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
5884 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
5885 Request" message.
5886 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
5887 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
5888 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
5889 are in use.
5890 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
5891 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
5892 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
5893 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
5894 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
5895 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
5896 violation.
5897DOC_END
a58ff010 5898
5473c134 5899NAME: coredump_dir
5900TYPE: string
5901LOC: Config.coredump_dir
5902DEFAULT: none
5903DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
5904DOC_START
5905 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
5906 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
5907 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
5908 and coredump files will be left there.
a58ff010 5909
5473c134 5910NOCOMMENT_START
5911# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
5912coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
5913NOCOMMENT_END
5914DOC_END
a58ff010 5915
5473c134 5916NAME: chroot
5917TYPE: string
5918LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 5919DEFAULT: none
5920DOC_START
5473c134 5921 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
5922 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
5923 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
5924 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will may get an
5925 error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5926DOC_END
a58ff010 5927
5473c134 5928NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
5929TYPE: onoff
5930LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 5931DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5932DOC_START
cc192b50 5933 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
5934 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
5935 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
5936
5473c134 5937 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
5938 found not to preserve user session state across requests
5939 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 5940
cc192b50 5941 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 5942DOC_END
5943
5473c134 5944NAME: pipeline_prefetch
5945TYPE: onoff
5946LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
5947DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 5948DOC_START
5473c134 5949 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
5950 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
5951 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 5952
5473c134 5953 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
5954 reasons.
5955DOC_END
a58ff010 5956
5473c134 5957NAME: high_response_time_warning
5958TYPE: int
5959COMMENT: (msec)
5960LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
5961DEFAULT: 0
5962DOC_START
5963 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
5964 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
5965 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 5966DOC_END
5967
5473c134 5968NAME: high_page_fault_warning
5969TYPE: int
5970LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
5971DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 5972DOC_START
5473c134 5973 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
5974 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5975 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
5976 per second.
5977DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5978
5473c134 5979NAME: high_memory_warning
5980TYPE: b_size_t
5981LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 5982DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 5983DOC_START
5984 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 5985 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 5986 the administrators attention.
5987DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5988
5473c134 5989NAME: sleep_after_fork
5990COMMENT: (microseconds)
5991TYPE: int
5992LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
5993DEFAULT: 0
5994DOC_START
5995 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
5996 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
5997 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
5998 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
5999 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
6000 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
6001 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
6002 until all the child processes have been started.
6003 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
6004 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 6005DOC_END
6006
b6696974
GS
6007NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6008COMMENT: on|off
6009TYPE: onoff
6010DEFAULT: on
6011LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
6012DOC_START
6013 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
6014 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
6015 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
6016 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
6017 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
6018 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
6019DOC_END
6020
cccac0a2 6021EOF